Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
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Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
A tech columnist's latest privacy experiment found Google Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Yes, I use Firefox, Ad Block Plus, and set my default search engine to Duck Duck Go. However, I assume it’s only marginally better and nothing is going to be perfect. Occasionally a site won’t work and I’ll have to use Chrome in an incognito window.
Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
I was using opera on my tablet until I had issues with Opera Loading. Then I found out Opera had been sold.
https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-browser/
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
I've had quite good success with Firefox, Safari and Nord VPN.
DNA has its own language (code), and language requires intelligence. There is no known mechanism by which matter can give birth to information, let alone language. It is unreasonable to believe the world could have happened by chance.
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Yeah, Safari is better than it used to be.
One thing that helped is that the web changed. Fewer sites use Flash
{ I’m talking to you, Vanguard portfolio watch}
- wasn’t Apple among the first to deprecate it?
HTML5, or whatever they’re using, is good.
I do love adblock for chrome.
One thing that helped is that the web changed. Fewer sites use Flash
{ I’m talking to you, Vanguard portfolio watch}
- wasn’t Apple among the first to deprecate it?
HTML5, or whatever they’re using, is good.
I do love adblock for chrome.
Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
I've recently started using the Adblock Browser (not to be confused with any Adblock plugin) on my phone. I believe it's a barebones version of Firefox with DuckDuckGo as the default browser. I'm a light user of the web on my phone and it's been great so far.
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
For your phone there is also Firefox Focus, which is "a dedicated privacy browser with tracking protection and content blocking".
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Just remember, all who use that, it’s *one* tab. I went nuts trying to figure out how to open a second.flyingpylon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:24 pm For your phone there is also Firefox Focus, which is "a dedicated privacy browser with tracking protection and content blocking".
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Yes, Firefox is fantastic these days. I swapped awhile back myself because of security and performance reasons. Firefox is actually more performant than Chrome these days. It took me awhile to get used to the FF developer tools because I had been developing primarily against Chrome for so many years. But aside from that it was a very smooth transition.
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Nord's on sale right now.Mountaineer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:16 am I've had quite good success with Firefox, Safari and Nord VPN.
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If you get Firefox & use Duckduckgo as the default browser, is that sufficient for privacy purposes or is it worth also paying for Nord VPN?
Nord sounds like a bombproof solution, but it is $$ (and another login, account etc).
Nord sounds like a bombproof solution, but it is $$ (and another login, account etc).
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Browser tools can help prevent your browser from being tracked; VPNs can help prevent you from being tracked by your IP address. They're largely orthogonal.
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For me, it's enough at home. However, I plan to use it (Nord) in areas if unsecured wifi away form home.
Honestly, though, I don't know if I'm going to keep the subscription.
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It is a good start.
It depends on what you want to keep Private.
Operating system, browser, spyware, cookies, Location,spyware tracking, or a fakebook-twitter?
For surfing the internet I use a Linux based operating system on a USB drive.
So every time I boot my computer it is like a new system, Without my previous history and when I shut down everything goes away, (passwords, cookies,) all your browsing History.
Of course your ISP will know where you have been. That is were a VPN comes in.
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Also any site (including sites with multi-site trackers like Facebook) can recognize you via your IP address and probably also your browser fingerprint.shekels wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:35 amIt is a good start.
It depends on what you want to keep Private.
Operating system, browser, spyware, cookies, Location,spyware tracking, or a fakebook-twitter?
For surfing the internet I use a Linux based operating system on a USB drive.
So every time I boot my computer it is like a new system, Without my previous history and when I shut down everything goes away, (passwords, cookies,) all your browsing History.
Of course your ISP will know where you have been. That is were a VPN comes in.
Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Sorry; I was addressing this part:
"Of course your ISP will know where you have been. That is were a VPN comes in."
by pointing out that a VPN fixes privacy issues above and beyond just your own ISP.
"Of course your ISP will know where you have been. That is were a VPN comes in."
by pointing out that a VPN fixes privacy issues above and beyond just your own ISP.
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Ah, ok.
From what I read -- and I know a fraction what you know; I just have a casual interest in trying -- the free VPNs are not really worth exploring. Part of the reason for that is that while your ISP no longer knows where you're browsing, your VPN does. Therefore, choose a trustworthy VPN. Of course, any of them could unwittingly have a Paige Thompson type in their employ. Can't do much about that any more than you can stop holding credit cards.
Nord has a really good reputation and I believe that they don't log or pay attention to browsing, so no probelm there. And, in fact, I don't worry about an ISP knowing my surfing habits in the first place. The thrill of streaming Norwegian Netflix by faking an IP has dissipated.
I don't know why Mountaineer uses his, but for me, it would strictly be for using unfamiliar wi-fi hotspots.
In fact, on a Mac desktop, you are instructed to supply NordVPN with your keychain password which is p the login to the computer itself. Nord's great reputation notwithstanding, that feels like giving up a lot of privacy at home to gain a little extra safety at Starbucks. I'll stick to using it for mobile devices.
From what I read -- and I know a fraction what you know; I just have a casual interest in trying -- the free VPNs are not really worth exploring. Part of the reason for that is that while your ISP no longer knows where you're browsing, your VPN does. Therefore, choose a trustworthy VPN. Of course, any of them could unwittingly have a Paige Thompson type in their employ. Can't do much about that any more than you can stop holding credit cards.
Nord has a really good reputation and I believe that they don't log or pay attention to browsing, so no probelm there. And, in fact, I don't worry about an ISP knowing my surfing habits in the first place. The thrill of streaming Norwegian Netflix by faking an IP has dissipated.
I don't know why Mountaineer uses his, but for me, it would strictly be for using unfamiliar wi-fi hotspots.
In fact, on a Mac desktop, you are instructed to supply NordVPN with your keychain password which is p the login to the computer itself. Nord's great reputation notwithstanding, that feels like giving up a lot of privacy at home to gain a little extra safety at Starbucks. I'll stick to using it for mobile devices.
Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
I haven't taken the VPS step myself, but I probably should. My ISP, horrifyingly, is Google.
Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
It's been really great. One of my concerns about a VPN (I've been saying VPS; that's not right) is what it would do to my network performance. This is really low latency, gigabit upstream and down. It'll be hard for a VPN to keep up!
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Re: Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch browsers.
Perhaps you could just turn it on once in awhile when you feel you need it and then turn it back off for speed.
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I'd prefer to have the router do the VPN-ing, so that it would apply to all machines in the house without anybody having to think about it. It should be possible...