Take Control of Your Online Privacy (2.0) by Joe Kissell

Author:Joe Kissell [Joe Kissell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: leanpub.com
Published: 2013-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

If you use Adblock Plus, be sure to visit its Options screen and deselect “Allow some non-intrusive advertising.” Companies like Google and Amazon pay to be on a list of exclusions so you’ll still see their ads even if you use Adblock Plus—but only if that box is checked. Since avoiding ads and associated tracking is the whole point of Adblock Plus, you shouldn’t give it any loopholes!

Another fantastic free tool is called Ghostery—available as a cross-platform browser extension for Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari; and as a stand-alone iOS Web browser. It displays a list of all the trackers of various sorts—both honorable and ignoble—present on any given Web page (Figure 12) and lets you enable or disable them (individually or by category), which can be handy because some sites don’t work without certain trackers. It’s highly educational as well as effective in increasing your privacy.

Figure 12: Ghostery briefly displays a pop-up showing which trackers it’s blocking when you load a site; you can individually enable or disable them as you like.

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