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Online privacy: Best browsers, settings, and tips

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.

Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. Remember that 2012 story about how Target could tell a teenager was pregnant before her parents knew, based on her online activities? That is the norm today. Google and Facebook are the most notorious commercial internet spies, and among the most pervasive, but they are hardly alone.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

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Tags: CVE-2022-40959

Tags: CVE-2022-40960

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Tags: Mozilla

Tags: Firefox

Tags: Thunderbird

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird which could be exploited to take control of a system.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Update now! Mozilla fixes security vulnerabilities and introduces a new privacy feature for Firefox

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:01:41 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox updates to the Release Channel that fix several security vulnerabilities and introduce a new privacy feature called Query Parameter Stripping.

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Firefox stops advertisers tracking you as you browse, calls itself the most “private and secure major browser”

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:21:00 +0000

Mozilla has launched its Total Cookie Protection addition to Firefox for users worldwide. What does it do?

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