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I was just thinking of this today:
InterWeb surveillance. Being not exactly friendly toward the
"We Must Know ALL!" attitude of the US government and marketing morons, along with
"The Customer Is CRIMINAL" attitude of the
Corporate Oligarchy, I simply want to be left the frack alone to my personal privacy. No one ever has the right to 'watch' me. I don't deal with
peeping pervs at my house, or over the InterTubes.
Therefore, I don't deal with Google collecting data on me wherever I go on the net. I've written about Tracking Cookies here on the blog and how to subvert them. But I get really tired of various websites still attempting to load Google Analytics.
Then I clicked over to
Intego's Mac Security Blog this evening. (You'd think they'd pay me for all the PR I give them! ;-) To my synchronistic joy I found a great little article about a niffy kewl Safari extension that does ALL the Google blocking for me. It blocks FaceBook surveillance as well! And here it is:
INCOGNITOIncognito is a Safari extension that prevents Google and Facebook from following you on the web.
It's a jungle out there
When browsing the web, you are continuously being tracked. Not only by the websites you are visiting, but also by major companies that embed their 'content' into other websites through ads and analytics.
As a result, companies like Google and Facebook have an almost complete picture of your online activity.
Your online counterspy
Incognito protects your privacy by blocking Google Adsense and Google Analytics on non-Google pages. In addition, it allows you to optionally block Facebook content on third-party websites as well as embedded YouTube movies outside of the YouTube website.
No ad-blocker
Although effectively blocking Google Adwords, Incognito is no dedicated ad-blocker. It simply prevents companies from gathering information outside of their own website.
It's FREE.
A similar tool for
Firefox is
Google Sharing.
The Firefox Addon for the GoogleSharing system. GoogleSharing ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.
It's also FREE.
BTW: I also use Safari
AdBlocker. And
Safari Cookies. I also frequently use software from
The Tor Project (formerly The Onion Project), including
Vidalia and
Tor Button for Firefox, which provides excellent proxy anonymity on the TubeWebs.
IOW: I am the boss of my Internet browsing, not the government, not Google, not the Red Hacker Alliance, not hacker/crackers, not Apple, not Microsoft, not the Neo-Con-Jobs, not nobody, not no how but ME. It is in keeping with my Positive Anarchy point of view. I make all the honest, responsible choices I wish to with total disregard for the extraneous interests of others.
Control freaks: Go have an aneurism over it. :-P
Speaking of which: Over at my MacSmarticles blog this coming month, I'm going to be providing lesson articles on
how to setup and use Tor, via Vidalia and Tor Button for Firefox. Sorting out how to use tools is a huge PITA if you're not a computer geek. Therefore, I shall be translating the methods into
human-speak for
mere mortals. Because this is geek level technology, it's still a bit time consuming. But once you get the hang of the protocol and set it all up for the first time, it ain't no big deal.
You too can be 100% INCOGNITO on the Webnets!~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MenInBlack
The Stranglers
© 1979
We're not here to destroy
We are here to employ
We have come to make you function
So we can eat at our functions
We are the meninblack ...
Information can destroy
So we'll treat you just like toys
Healthy livestock so we can eat
Human flesh is porky meat...
We are the meninblack...
We don't approve of artificial food
We grow you for our own good
First we gave you the wheel
Then we made you live to kill
So the best stock will survive
We eat you all alive
We are the meninblack ...
~~
Therefore, it is with great glee that I read over the past couple days that the single most infamous SPAMMER of all time is facing a possible 16 years in jail for his nefarious damage to the Internet. Who's the SPAMRAT? It's Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace. He represents the ultimate Marketing Moron, an idiot who literally hates his customers and bombs them with marketing manure at every opportunity with no conscience, no respect for the consequences. I'd go so far as to label him and his ilk psychopathic, but don't consider me any expert on psychology.
