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These days most people are very concerned about protecting their privacy while using the Internet.
If you happen to value your online privacy you’ll probably be interested in the results of a recent study on browser privacy that released to the public a few months back.
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
A while back I wrote a post discussing the extremely irritating “Why are all these strangers following me?” hoax on Facebook.
In a nutshell, that hoax tells you to type the words “following me” into the Facebook search box to see a list of all the people who are following you.
If you use Facebook you probably already know that thousands of companies advertise their products and services to Facebook’s roughly two billion users.
What you might not know is that dozens, and perhaps even hundreds of those advertisers have your personal information on a contact list.
If you value your online privacy above all else then you’ll probably enjoy using Firefox’s Private Browsing mode.
Private Browsing prevents Firefox from saving any of your Internet history in its log files which in turns makes it difficult from a third party to see what you’re been doing on the Internet.
Most people who use Private Browsing simply clicking the “Start Private Browsing” option on the main Firefox menu, but this only turns on Private Browsing for the current session only. But there is a simple way to instruct Firefox to turn on Private Browsing automatically every time the program is started. Here’s how: [Read more…]