There are several websites world over that track users. Originally, tracking mechanisms included Cookies, Flash Cookies. Historically too, I have written about Firefox add-ons in the articles below: Firefox add-ons you should never surf without Watching you silently – Flash Cookies / LSOs As mitigation measures were developed to counter cookies and flash cookies, old … Continue reading Web sites track users with invisible canvas fingerprint rather than cookies or flash cookies
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How to stop gnome trackers
Stop trackers, tracker-filesystem-miner, tracker-store, zeitgeist-datahub in Fedora by typing disabling them using and unchecking the items you want to disable on startup: $ gnome-session-properties <enter> Uncheck the items: Tracker File System Miner Tracker Miner for Flickr Tracker Store At present, these are checked by default. This way, you would not have the trackers enabled and … Continue reading How to stop gnome trackers
