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I'm sure Facebook is diligently working to bypass this attempt of people to maintain their privacy, along with all others, but it's notably better than nothing.

http://www.abine.com/blog/2014... DoNotTrackMe in Chrome seems to have this covered as long as you sell your soul (plus every other detail about you) to GoogleNSA inc . ooo i could rant :)

Happily, the author is not connected to the ad industry: https://abine.com/donottrackme...

Its called 'DeleteMe' and you can check with them to see if they can help you with particular sites.

This is the same group that makes the anti-tracking browser addon 'DoNotTrackMe'.

Seems there are modtrolls who don't want people to know about DeleteMe...

Its called 'DeleteMe' and you can check with them to see if they can help you with particular sites.

This is the same group that makes the anti-tracking browser addon 'DoNotTrackMe'.

Ads are a pain but I use Ghostery and DoNotTrackMe which takes care of most of the crap.

Actually, use it in Safari, too... https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php

Aside from the advertising issue, blocking third party cookies could break behaviour that the user is expecting

Blocking third party cookies is the Safari default. If the site works for Mac and iOS users, it'll work for Firefox users too.

IIRC, fewer than 10% of Safari users have gone and turned on third-party cookies.

Good point, but Safari will still fetch web bugs and run any 3rd-party code.

Mozilla's "threat" is just tweaking the edges of the problem. Anti-tracking needs to be comprehensive and implemented fully on the client by an independent coder (the 'other' anti-tracking addon is in partnership with the ad industry).

Alternately, you could use Albine's DoNotTrackMe add-on if you don't want to use an add-on funded by advertisers and businesses paying them for ad data and compliance

Although from what I understand, the only info that both apps send back to the mothership is generic usage data, so the risk (or lack thereof) is probably the same for both.

I used the so called shortcut and it opened https://www.abine.com/abine-products-post-install/ which I have never installed or been to that website. Did it pull it out of thin air? Some sort of product placement? Space robots controlling my computer? Website Noscript blocked? I WILL NEVER KNOW.

Or Abine DoNotTrackMe, which I marginally prefer over Ghostery because the latter is run by the ad networks (of course, I'd prefer an OpenSource alternative...)

NoScript, Perspectives, Flashblock, BetterPrivacy and HTTPS Everywhere round out the package.

And occassionally PrefBar so I can change my browser UserAgent on the fly, just to mess with 'em...

https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php

This is the anti-tracking extension that does NOT have a partnership with the ad industry.

And Do Not Track Me blocked an additional 3.

There's extensions for just about every browser. Good stuff.

http://www.ghostery.com/

There's also https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php which is what I decided to use after being a longtime Ghostery user especially since it would appear that Ghostery has had some memory hogging issues lately.

Ghostery was bought by an ad company and their source of income is advertising and marketing firms that want to know the reach and efficiency of their programs.

Abine's DoNotTrack is funded by user subscription services.

I don't know why the parent isn't modded higher.

You can do a few easy things to take yourself out of the "low hanging fruit" category, listed in order of extremeness & difficulty :)

1. Diable all browser plugins. I only use Flash very occasionally on an as needed basis. There's loads of hidden Flash on sites. Very easy to do in Chrome.
2. Install an extension called DoNotTrackMe, it's free and blocks nearly all of the nasty commercial trackers. https://abine.com/dntdetail.php
3. Install another extension called HTTPS Everywhere from the good people at EFF. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
4. Use an app or manually manage your cookies regularly. On the Mac at home I have an app that regularly erases all the cookies and DBs web surfing leaves behind except for the ones I have marked as favorites. I have a similar app that erases other data at regular intervals such as caches, logs, etc.
5. Don't use FB and other free social sites and services e.g. Google Docs. (Use Libre, etc.)
6. Use a Robots.txt file in every directory that could ever put online. They work.
7. Use LastPass (free) which stores all your web site login data in an encrypted file which only you can access from any computer. You can use a different email address and login ID with every website you surf to then.
Even if you just don't want to have to remember multiple web site logins and passes I could not imagine web life without LastPass anymore. https://lastpass.com/
8. Use pre-paid credit cards.
9. Change your name to be the same as that of a famous actor who is the same sex and a similar in age & appearance as you. I happen to have this by luck, if you Google me you must troll through several pages of celebrity garbage to even get to results for anyone with the same name.

Do all of the above in a VM with default settings from a variety of connections and you're pretty un-trackable for all but the most sophisticated out there.

I've had good luck with Do Not Track Plus for Chrome.

It's a plugin/addon for all the major browsers

http://abine.com/dntdetail.php

Do not track plus

So it's high time to stop this shit and use an addon called " Do not track plus"

http://abine.com/dntdetail.php

There are a ton of legitimate uses for third party cookies, so over-blocking them breaks a lot of stuff.

really easy: http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php

Toss in TACO for good measure

They already made an offer to release the source for 3.0: http://www.abine.com/taco_source.php

FTFY. On their page it says:

To get a local copy of the source just contact us at support@getabine.com

This is even less than Microsoft shared source. If I was basing something, for example a security audit, on this offer I'd want to know that someone independent had actually downloaded the source and verified that they could build the end module.

They already released the source for 3.0: http://www.abine.com/taco_source.php

Also, Eric Jung is on their 'Advisory board': http://abine.com/team.php If you don't know who he is, he is a board member of Mozilla Add-Ons governing board.

Wrong. Eric Jung is on the board of Mozdev, and independent organization dedicated to hosting Mozilla-related projects (like a specialized Sourceforge). He is not part of the Mozilla Add-ons team.

I'm in charge of the add-on review process at Mozilla, and I personally reviewed and approved the TACO update due to its complexity. I have no relationship with Abine whatsoever.

This way, they can sell the data on and still stick to their 'privacy policy': "Our Abine browser add-on uses hashes of unique identifiers that are not tied to you or your IP address, to help you track versions and updates for the add-on, and a different set of randomly generated identifiers to validate service requests such as creating or updating disposable email addresses. If you chose to provide more data in order to take advantage of additional services, such as webmail, add-on identifiers are never used in a way that ties it to your name or personal information to the best of our ability." Also, Eric Jung is on their 'Advisory board': http://abine.com/team.php If you don't know who he is, he is a board member of Mozilla Add-Ons governing board. This 'update' has made a mockery of the update mechanism in Firefox and severely undermines it in my view. Here's a link to the support board over at Abine, where I have been voicing my disapproval and I recommend you do the same: https://www.getabine.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7&start=10#p37