Personal computing discussed
just brew it! wrote:It is a lot easier to just use Private/Incognito mode if you're visiting sites you don't want to save cookies from. Dumping all of your cookies every time you exit the browser is going to make many sites less convenient to use.
just brew it! wrote:It is a lot easier to just use Private/Incognito mode if you're visiting sites you don't want to save cookies from. Dumping all of your cookies every time you exit the browser is going to make many sites less convenient to use.
I suppose if you're paranoid about web tracking, it makes some sense to clear them all at the end of each session...
just brew it! wrote:Y'all realize this is a necro of a pretty old thread, right?
whm1974 wrote:So what other ways can way protect our privacy? I'm not expecting 100%, but every little bit helps.
just brew it! wrote:whm1974 wrote:So what other ways can way protect our privacy? I'm not expecting 100%, but every little bit helps.
Cancel your internet and cell service. Cut up your credit/debit cards. Live in a tent out in the middle of the woods, and eat only what you can catch, gather, or grow with your own hands. It's the only way to be sure.
whm1974 wrote:just brew it! wrote:whm1974 wrote:So what other ways can way protect our privacy? I'm not expecting 100%, but every little bit helps.
Cancel your internet and cell service. Cut up your credit/debit cards. Live in a tent out in the middle of the woods, and eat only what you can catch, gather, or grow with your own hands. It's the only way to be sure.
Surely there are ways we can protect our privacy to some degree without going that far. Or at least don't make easy for others to violate it.
whm1974 wrote:Surely there are ways we can protect our privacy to some degree without going that far. Or at least don't make easy for others to violate it.
Captain Ned wrote:whm1974 wrote:Surely there are ways we can protect our privacy to some degree without going that far. Or at least don't make easy for others to violate it.
As much as I don't like the answer, the fact remains that since 99+% of humanity seems not to care, we're stuck with the current data-hoovering ecosystem we have now. Best we can do is nibble around the edges but full privacy in a digital world is simply impossible.
nerdrage wrote:Firefox allows ...
Redocbew wrote:Not really. Malicious code that happens to be written in JavaScript is just one possible attack vector of many, and(very) many sites simply won't function properly without it.
whm1974 wrote:Redocbew wrote:Not really. Malicious code that happens to be written in JavaScript is just one possible attack vector of many, and(very) many sites simply won't function properly without it.
Yeah I'm starting to find that out.