#2 2011-01-04 20:32:58

Very old news...but I guess if you didn't know a few others on here didn't.

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#3 2011-01-04 20:41:12

Adblock Plus is the shit for Firefox.

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#5 2011-01-05 05:48:03

I just installed TrackMeNot yesterday. http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
It does Google, Yahoo, AOL, Bing and Baidu searches every minute based on RSS feeds that you provide.  The idea is to muddle what you are really searching for with garbage.  I added the HS RSS feed, of course.

I think the only flaw is, that it never visits any of the sites that it finds in the search results.

And Scotty, give NoScript a try, http://noscript.net/.  It kills even more than AdBlock.

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#6 2011-01-05 08:39:34

I love Adblock and like Noscript, and have run TOR, but found it unusable for certain sites.

Also deleting tracking cookies every day also helps. Spybot S&D will do that for you, as will many trojan and virus scanners. Run them automatically nightly or on shutdown or startup and it will prevent most of that stuff.

PS: That chick totally looks like my neighbor's old girlfriend, who he happened to meet on a Herpes+ dating site.

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#7 2011-01-05 08:54:13

For the Ubergeeky here, I had to get a laugh at the popularity of the Kinect this holiday season. Let's see how this will work out:

XBox security measures cracked: Check.
"Free" downloadable games from Live: Check.
High speed internet and plenty of storage: Check.
Camera watching your living room: Check.
Hacked drivers for said camera: Check

http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/big-brother-is-watching-you1.jpg

Or maybe just some pervy Russian or Indonesian kid...

Last edited by GooberMcNutly (2011-01-05 08:54:58)

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#8 2011-01-05 09:32:09

choad wrote:

You there, Square?

More of a pain in the ass than it's worth, I think.  If you 1) use the same password for High Street as other sites; or 2) visit from public wireless access points, then you probably deserve what you get.

Something like KeePass or Password Safe will help you take care of #1.  For #2, you just need to develop a sense of shame.

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