Best use a separate browser for privacy! Any respectable Web browser has a privacy mode, a clean slate without the tiny bits of information (cookies) that identify you to websites. Google Chrome has incognito. Mozillas Firefox has private window. But theres a chink in privacy modes armor. A software developer in London has discovered a string of code that can carry over from your regular session into private mode, rendering privacy mode somewhat useless. For example, lets say you use a regular browser to shop on Amazon and use Facebook. Then you launch privacy mode to visit a website that deserves more discretion, like a controversial blog. If that blog uses the same ad network as Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) or includes a Facebook (FB, Tech30) like button, the advertisers and Facebook now know Joe the Amazon shopper and Joe the Facebook user is also Joe the controversial blog reader. There is a workaround, albeit annoying: You can either delete all your cookies before launching privacy mode, or you can dedicate a separate browser for privacy mode use only. money.cnn/2015/01/09/technology/security/super-cookies/index.html?source=yahoo_quote
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:01:13 +0000
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