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Understanding which privacy tools provide very similar functionality
https://amiunique.org/tools has a list of recommended privacy tools.
uBlock
Ghostery
HTTPS Everywhere
Lightbeam
AdBlock Plus
Disconnect
Privacy Badger
NoScript
Self-destructing cookies
However, aren'...
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Is Stylish safe to use again?
Stylish is/was a very popular extension for the Chrome and Firefox web browsers, which let users add custom styles to certain websites. I was using it myself, until a helpful fellow told me it was ...
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Can websites collect browser data without using http requests? [closed]
Is it possible for a website to collect data such as the plugins/fonts installed without sending it thought http requests?
If so, is there any plugin for any browser that tells the user what type of ...
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To plugin or not to plugin?
Recently I did quite a research about internet browser related privacy. It hit me hard in the flesh myself, since I was part of the victims in the [WOT fiasco]1]. So I found out that usually way over ...
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How does bulk Advertisement opt-out work? What services exist? [closed]
There are a few online advertisement opt-out services such as:
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/#completed
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/...
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Does this list every Chrome extension/addin that may leak privacy?
I am looking for a simple list of all extensions, preference, custom processes, and "flags" that may disclose a user's privacy or other details to a 3rd party.
To that end, I discovered: chrome://net-...
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How to improve the security and privacy of Firefox
What would be a sensible approach to enhance the security and privacy of Firefox?
I did not find a question about this and I feel that some guidelines for casual web users would be handy.
Currently ...
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Browser Extension to show how your session is being shared
A while back I came across a browser extension (was available for Firefox and Chrome, maybe others) that showed you through a graphical 'node' interface how your browser session was shared with so ...
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Twitter.com in private browsing leaks data to normal browser. Other sites as well? Bug or feature?
This is the first time I encountered similar thing. When I log into the Twitter web site in Chrome (namely, the Iron version which is said to be security enhanced, but that does not matter here) in ...
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When a browser extension or user script pulls a JS file from Google's CDN, how does this compromise the user's privacy in terms of Google's reach? [duplicate]
The context from which my question has arisen is this user script which locally removes ads from Ixquick.com, which is an anonymizing 'proxy' search engine that gives the results from Google's index ...
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