Mozilla has introduced a feature called Privacy Preserving Attribution and turned it on by default, much to the chagrin of a privacy watchdog.
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Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:05:27 +0000
Tips for using incognito mode and advanced private browsing controls.
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Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 12:05:57 +0000
A small program called Googerteller emits a sound every time your browser accesses Google and the most common advertising trackers.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:02:41 +0000
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.
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Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:41:29 +0000
Learn about upcoming iOS changes in 2024 and how to use the new alternative browsers and app stores on Apple devices.
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Credit to Author: Alexey Vovk| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:49:18 +0000
How to disable synchronization and make other browser settings safe for a company
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Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:46:46 +0000
What is Secure DNS and Private DNS, how to configure them, and what are the differences between the two?
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“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.