Tag Archives: privacy

Do-Not-Track Feature Lands in Google Chrome

Do-Not-Track (DNT) feature has finally landed in the latest Chromium build. Users of stable release channel should get this feature by the end of this year. Continue reading

Mozilla Is User’s Best Friend, And Not Cloud’s Enemy

Mozilla has the goal to give users full right of their browsing experience. Mozilla is actually helping cloud computing by creating a faster, secured and open browser. Continue reading

Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension

Chrome extension Awesome Screenshot manipulates Google’s search result pages and inserts Amazon affiliate links without user’s permission. Continue reading

Improved Adblock Plus Extension For Google Chrome

Adblock Plus extension for Google Chrome has added some exciting features recently. The extension now blocks all opted ads completely, without loading or just hiding them. Continue reading

Tracking Protection in Internet Explorer 9

Tracking Protection is the latest mechanism of IE to offer users a convenient way to block and allow third-party content and sharing information with such sites, and hence opt-out of the tracking using browser cookies and other means. Continue reading

Mozilla’s "Do Not Track" in Action

Mozilla’s upcoming ‘Do Not Track’ feature has landed in the nightly build of Firefox. This feature utilizes HTTP Header sent to web servers to tell user’s preference to opt-out of the OBA. Continue reading

Facebook Gets Full HTTPS Support

Facebook has announced full support for HTTPS, which is now available for all pages of the #1 social networking website. Earlier, only login pages had this feature, which makes using Facebook much secured. Continue reading

Keep My Opt-Outs – Google Chrome Extension

Google has released an extension for Google Chrome users to opt-out of personalized advertising and tracking. Chrome users can install this extension from here to disable online behavioral advertising (OBA). Continue reading

Proposal For Opting-out of Behavioral Ads From Mozilla (and Google?)

According to this proposal, users will be allowed to set a browser preference to disable the OBA, and this information will be sent to websites using HTTP header. Continue reading

Mozilla Blocks Skype Toolbar Add-on

Mozilla has announced to block the official Skype Toolbar add-on for Firefox, which comes bundled with the Skype installer. Mozilla says that this add-on is causing browser crashes and slows down certain processes by up to 300 times. Continue reading