Ask HN: Practical browser, email, search engine combination to maximize privacy

3 points by ascentofstan 14 years ago | 1 comment

What are some practical(or even some obscure) tools/techniques that can be used to minimize data aggregated about you when you're going about your day to day internet usage.

Perhaps a list of tools/apis that can maximize user privacy would be useful to many of us?

brudgers 14 years ago |

I use a dedicated virtual machine for Facebook. I have another for Linkedin, and a third for Gmail. I run noscript and ghostery in Firefox, on my normal desktop. I revoke temporary permissions after I am done with the webpage.

The VM's pretty much eliminate cross site tracking where I have explicitly identified myself. The Firefox addons reduce the amount of tracking from ordinary sites.

I also am cautious with regard to linking my smartphone to sites like Facebook.