Category: web
‘Follow from afar.’
Fraidycat by Kicks Condor
Fraidycat is a browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. (Just those right now – it’s brand-new, quite experimental.) I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose – Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a public TiddlyWiki.
(also posted to indieweb.xyz/en/tools)
on Google’s attempt ‘to appear to be doing something on web privacy’
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
[also mentioned by Mr.Kapowski]Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That’s the new disingenuous argument from Google, trying to justify why Chrome is so far behind Safari and Firefox in offering privacy protections. As researchers who have spent over a decade studying web tracking and online advertising, we want to set the record straight.
‘stories about risks online’
Net Alert
[equivalentideas]…an effort to translate new research on privacy and security into clear messages that explain how online threats work and what you can do about them.
