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#Opfacebook: Stop Facebook from tracking your internet behavior

Facebook traces every site you visit that has a like button on it EVEN IF YOU DON'T CLICK IT.

and EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT REGISTERED, Facebook will place a cookie (what is a cookie?) on your hard disk.(not only Facebook, almost all sites do but those sites do that only to remember your preferences in their site) These cookies on your hard disk stores every single site you visit with this damn button, if you visited the site just ONCE.

They have a full profile of your surfing behavior (you know that even porn sites have this button)

There's a simple solution for this:Install "Facebook Disconnect" add-on for your browser. This stops Facebook from tracking the webpages you go to.
Very easy! just goto this site (http://disconnect.me/) and click "install disconnect")


You'll get the warning that it accesses your data on every website. Thats because it has to inject Java into the site to prevent the "like Button" from working. The code of the addon is open source. It does not touch your privacy - you can learn more in the FAQ of the addon.


Bad news! This not only blocks facebook cookies, but also Google buttons and reCaptcha (that human verification thingy). So its kinda annoying (i mean very annoying). So the only practical solution is to use a different browser to access facebook (very very annoying i know). well thats the price you have to pay for stop being tracked. I feel like im running away from a murder already :/

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How To Choose a Web Browser?

Since most people don’t seem to understand how to choose a web browser I thought I should share what I know.

As everybody knows there are only 5 good browsers. And they have their own advantages, you should choose the one suits you.

If you always go through your history or you always goto same sites, then you should consider Mozilla Firefox. No other browser comes up with the browsing history like Firefox does. Just have to enter a part of the text in the link and it comes up. But when it comes to surfing, it’s a little slow and use a little too much of RAM.


If you are looking for speed, you should definitely go for Google Chrome. And there aren’t many toolbars like other browsers. Its very simple and basic I would say. Recently I have found out that it has a translator tool which allows you to translate web pages which are in other languages. And another thing I have noticed is that, it has the ability to clear the history of a single day (without clearing the history of other days) and it doesn’t eat up your RAM like Firefox does.


I don’t see anything special in Internet Explorer. It’s known for security and adds some pretty slick browsing aids, such as WebSlices and Accelerators. It’s all slow and annoying to me. Most people use it because it comes up with windows and they are very loyal to it or they haven’t experienced any other browser.



I don’t see anything other than tons of toolbar. But you can synchronize bookmarks and stuff with your Opera Mini browser on your phone. That’s an added advantage. Well the best browser for phones is Opera Mini.



Safari claims that it’s the world’s fastest browser. Then the Chrome must be from mars. It sure is fast but not as much as Google Chrome. Another thing about Safari is that its offers eye candy with its Cover Flow history display.


Oh and how can I forget Sea Monkey. It didn’t even show me the chat window in Facebook. I uninstalled it within 30 minutes. After all, what I recommend is Google Chrome. It’s really good. You gotta try if you haven’t yet.

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