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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Sun Mar 4, 2012, 11:04 PM Mar 2012

Two internet privacy tools

Anti-tracking freeware: "Do Not Track Plus"

http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php?

And a private search engine that masks your IP address:

https://startpage.com/eng/

Thought I'd share.

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Two internet privacy tools (Original Post) SHRED Mar 2012 OP

Also Ghostery. BadgerKid Mar 2012 #1

I've been using startpage for some time now madokie Mar 2012 #2

Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team) knightfiend Mar 2012 #3

BadgerKid

(4,552 posts)

1. Also Ghostery.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 01:06 AM

Mar 2012

I had DNT Plus installed but Firefox's cookie manager started acting strangely -- some cookies were undeletable. I let Ghostery do it thing and have Firefox do its clean up (discard cache, cookies; terminate active logins; etc.) when I quit it.

madokie

(51,076 posts)

2. I've been using startpage for some time now

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 08:35 AM

Mar 2012

Ixquick also. I keep cookies turned off except for du. If I want to allow a site like ebay to set a cookie on my machine I'll use exceptions and set that site as for this session only. Right now the only cookies I have on here is from DU
I use ubuntu 10.10 and firefox 10.0.2

knightfiend

(6 posts)

3. Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team)

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 07:33 PM

Mar 2012

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