Tracking

Any recommended programs to keep Mozilla and other browsers from tracking you.

 

I do have Do not Track and blocking turned on with Mozilla and strict instead of basic. Is this enough?

 

Nothing is ever enough. Your every key stroke is recorded on servers somewhere.
Your IP provider records your every Key stroke on their servers.

The new version of Firefox comes with a "Forget button", which wipes out browsing history from your selected time frame without affecting the rest of your information.
Wouldn't hurt to add that as well.

Google spend billions providing you a service. They harvest and sell your information to the highest bidder to recoup some of their outlay. What's bad about that.?
Google give you YouTube. I don't give a dam if they track my surfing habits.
So many are so paranoid about privacy. There is no privacy on the Internet.

 

Browser extensions/functions such as 'Ghostery' and 'Do Not Track' might reduce tracking but no matter what trackers they block, there always seem to be some they don't.

It might be thought that blocking most of them is better than blocking none but I have a theory, perhaps not well-founded though. What if the few trackers that don't get blocked 'talk' across the Internet to all the ones that have been blocked? If that were the case, then I suppose there might not have been too much point in blocking any of them ..because the ones that got past the blocker will communicate with all the others anyway.

To see how that might be possible, try installing a Firefox extension called 'Lightbeam'. This gives a graphical representation of how trackers communicate in the background. Do some browsing without any tracking blockers in operation and look at what Lightbeam shows. Then browse with blocking enabled to see the difference.

When I tried using a tracking blocker, much tracking was indeed prevented but seeing pictorially in Lightbeam how the Internet trackers can interlink with each other, I wonder if they might communicate behind the scenes.

I don't worry about trackers now. I've been on the Internet for around twenty years and my IP address (only) is probably profiled to the hilt. I have to say though, this has made no difference to my daily life on or off the Internet. I therefore wonder how harmful tracking really is when all said and done.

 

I agree. It is not going to destroy your personal life.
Isn't it also tracking when you are caught maybe one hundred times by CCTV in a busy Shopping center, including all the security cameras in near every shop.
Or all your Credit card transactions recorded, where and where I shop to what amount.
You go on a holiday and you can be tracked what time you bought Gas in what town.
You are tracked daily, so why is the internet such a big deal.
I think tracking is not quite the Monster portrayed.

 

I agree with the above and have never really been too concerned with all this "privacy insanity phobias". But when I keep seeing it over and over I sort of become scared and wonder. Have never to my knowledge ever been harmed by tracking, security, or privacy issues since my 1998 enter into the PC world. It helps to have insight from others on this subject.