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Proxy.sh is one of the most feature-rich VPN services. It’s also extremely BitTorrent-friendly and promises not to log user data. It supports all the major operating systems for desktop and mobile. Pricing is competitive but confusing, so you should consider which features come with which plans. These are the major selling points of Proxy.sh: Privacy […]
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Self Destructing Cookies is a Firefox add-on that automatically removes cookies when they are no longer used by open browser tabs. I’ve found this to be an excellent solution that works silently in the background. Websites will only be permitted to identify you while you actually use them and can not stalk you across the
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Trezor is a safe for storing bitcoins. This USB device creates an isolated environment for offline Bitcoin transaction signing.
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All the cool web sites you visit need to know the properties of your “user agent” (in today’s environment it is your web browser) in order to optimize the views and transactions of the pages you visit on your device. This information (browser and version, operating system and version, etc.) is provided to the web
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The Firefox browser has a useful feature called “Reader View” which strips away clutter like buttons, ads and background images. It also adjusts the page’s text size, contrast and layout for better readability. You can find the Reader View button here: Here is an article from Reuters as it appears in Page View Mode: There
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In this article, I list three useful catalogs of privacy-friendly software.
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Maildrop is a free email service that allows you to instantly generate an email address when you don’t want to give out your real one.
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Ransomware is malicious software that allows a hacker to access an individual or company computer, encrypt your data resident on it and then demand some form of payment to decrypt it. This lets hackers hold your data hostage – and hence the term “ransom”. Victims can regain access to their files only by paying the ransom, or by restoring from a backup that was hopefully not on a network that was accessible to the compromised computer.
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