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[OakLeaf]

The two I use are NoScript and Ghostery. It's easier to just install them and play with the settings than it is to explain. I'm far from an expert.

It makes the browsing experience ... more interactive, should I say? And these days, it's useful to have a separate browser kept wide open for when you just HAVE to interact with one of those really unsanitary websites, which is getting to be more and more of them lately. The key there is to put it in private browsing mode, enable all the security the particular site permits you, open that window and no others, and quit the browser immediately after you're done.

You could also just install Lightbeam to show you how much you're giving away. Lightbeam doesn't block anything, just illustrates it. Even with my level of security (which I would characterize as moderate, certainly not high), as I said on another forum - every time I look at Lightbeam, it makes me want to throw my computer in a hot shower with bleach and scrub brushes ... which obviously even if I did that, wouldn't clean any of my information off all the OTHER computers that now have it ...

[Helene2013]

Thanks. I'll look it up this weekend.

I know the big www is crazy. It's amazing how much information I can find on someone. Working in HR I regularly have to dig up info and it is sooooo easy. Some people are truly opened books on the net.

[emily_in_nc]

I'm not as active here as I once was partly because I'm not riding nearly as much this year since we're in Mexico, and yes, Facebook takes a lot of my online time. I also have a couple of people I email pretty regularly, and our blog, though I haven't been posting a lot there either since we've been staying in one place for months now. I still enjoy stopping by here and seeing what people are up to, but I do miss some of the "old timers" who have dropped off completely or mostly.