Posted on 06/19/2013 10:48:48 AM PDT by DBCJR
The maker of the popular Firefox browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of Internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to limit who watches their movements across the Web, company officials said Wednesday.
The decision comes despite intense resistance from advertising groups, which have argued that tracking is essential to delivering well-targeted, lucrative ads that pay for many popular Internet services. When Firefox’s maker, Mozilla, first publicly suggested that it might limit blocking in February, one advertising executive called it “a nuclear first strike” against the industry.
Widespread release of the blocking technology remains months away, but Mozilla officials spoke confidently on Wednesday about the growing sophistication of tools they are building to limit the placement of “cookies” in the browsers of individual users.
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I’ve been using abine for my IE for years. They finally have it for Firefox now?
CCleaner does a pretty damn good job at covering your tracks if you need something to just purge all of your cached data.
That old NetGear isn’t in the support list, so it’s not likely to work with DD-WRT (most likely due to RAM/FLASH size constraints).
The F7D7302 IS supported and on the K26 (NEWD) firmware.
All of the instructions are there. Just do a little reading and make sure you’ve got everything printed out you need just in case anything problematic happens. You WILL enjoy it.
Can you use firefox on Mac’s?
Alternately, you could make more use of FireFox’s “private browsing” feature. In “private” mode, cookies do not get saved, which eliminates one big way in which companies track you.
I use it and MRU. I was wondering if there was another similar program since MRU hasn’t been updated in 6 years.
I’d never used MRU. I like the concept, but I default to keeping my personal data including browsing history, etc. under lock and key with encryption. No program in production today can effectively wipe your entire OS clean of incriminating information if you’re up to no good. Unless you’re using SSDs with a secure wipe application running from a bootable USB drive that you can run before the fuzz breaks down your doors, they WILL get your information.
Aside from Linux, it’s almost impossible to run an OS without Internet connectivity these days.
I’m not concerned with someone seeing what’s on the hardrive or what websites I’ve been looking at, they can see that from my internet server if they are that curious. I just want to erase the unneeded crap that gets loaded in the memory and stored for ever and ever on my PC.
There’s cookies now that stay on our hardrives when you clear them and when you go back to a website they record that you have been there before. I imagine that’s valuable to some marketing manager somewhere but not to me. So I don’t want that cookie on my PC.
I have gone thru my registry and reduced most MRU’s to store just to store two or three items. Some of them had twenty spaces. I think Google was one of them. MRU Blaster cleans them out when you use it. I use it and CCleaner everytime I shut down the PC.
How do you run the encryption?
If your motherboard supports a TPM (Trusted Platform Module), I suggest you get one. You may already have one if your machine is new. The TPM is a uniquely hashed security device that mates your computer to a specific encryption algorithm. Any encrypted disks created locally or on a USB disk must use that TPM to decrypt the hash. If that TPM key doesn’t exist, it’s impossible to decrypt the encrypted data (unless you have a quantum computing cluster and a few years of time to devote to brute-forcing the key).
You gotta spy on us to give us free stuff? That's the best you got?? Or rather, since I never buy any of your crap anyway, you gotta spy on me so my idiot neighbor can get free stuff? What are you, the Janet Reno of the internet?
I have Ghostery, Adblock Plus, and now Betterprivacy thanks to your suggestions. I used to use DoNotTrack before AVG got it but I also have AVG as my firewall/antivirus. Anyone know of anything else, besides NoScript, that I should be using?
I mentioned Malwarebytes anti-malware freeware, and SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition or Spybot Search & Destroy freeware. And finally, using registry repair software.
Think of it as a “layered defense”, to, at intervals sweep your system looking for stuff that managed to sneak in.
The programs I recommended are frequently updated with the latest tips and tricks, and they do catch a lot of baddies that sneak through.
And registry repair software is also very important, because not only does it police up registry problems, but it backs up your registry, so if you get a bad invader, and while killing it your registry is damaged, you will be able to restore it.
I personally like Registry Wizard. Part of a review:
This program has more than just registry scanning and repair. It has an optimize menu which has some interesting items that are changed by adjusting the sliders or checking a check box. One of the best ones if it works is to auto-close non-responsive tasks. That closes non-responsive programs without the need to do it manually through the task manager-very helpful.
Boot optimization improves startup time by locating startup files in contiguous clusters. In this section there is also a registry defragmenter.
The clean history menu had some interesting options too. You could clean the start menu order history, the network drive history, user assist history, run menu history, recent documents history and a whole bunch of others. There were also opportunities to clean up Internet Explorer and Firefox as well.
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