Last week, I asked how I could stop Facebook from tracking my web activities even when I was off of Facebook. Lots of you gave me great suggestions — but the two that I have implemented are below.
You may want to give them a shot:
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
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December 24th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Ditch Firefox, pick up Chrome (just surpassed FF in # of users). The first best decision for 2012.
December 24th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Doesn’t appear the FB Blocker is compatible with FireFox 8.0.
December 24th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I did so after watching the 14minute video in the Blog area at Disconnect.me… I never realized how much information they were gathering.
December 24th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
I use disconnect and it’s really sped up my browser. Quite pleased with it.
December 24th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
facebook … the herpes of the internet
December 24th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
facebook blocker also blocks comments from appearing, at least at LATimes.
FSMas lights http://bit.ly/s3bpDC
December 24th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for this
I would suggest that people should also beware of google. If you are not signed in or if you do not have a google account you are tracked but your identifiable history only exists for two years before it is “anonymized” (ya right).
If you have google toolbar or chrome or are signed into your google account whilst browsing – it’s tracked and it’s stored in perpetuity. When you sign up for a google account something called web history is an opt out feature. Google web history records every site you visit and then stores that info. Because you agreed to Google’s terms when you signed up even if you delete and disable web history you’re sol as they’ve got the data.
If you have a google account and did not opt out of web history take a look and have a walk down memory lane.
I think it was Eric Schmidt who suggested that people need to get over the privacy thing.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48975
December 25th, 2011 at 2:34 am
I use a facebook only browser in addition to the various add ons.
December 25th, 2011 at 4:39 am
@Forbes
try this for a pesky google problem:
https://startpage.com/
https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
Disconnect is a very thorough blocker of redirects; you may be unpleasantly surprised when your search results are blocked for yahoo or google.
December 25th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
thanks for the info…I use firefox and it worked for me…