I use the Ghostery plugin with Firefox at home and work to control "3PES" as 
they call them.  Between that, NoScript, and Request Policy, I feel relatively 
secure.  Of course, if I want to see web-pages the way the authors intended, I 
have to do a lot of NoScript and Request Policy exceptions.  Some sites just 
get lumped into untrusted under NoScript - the first time I see a web-page 
wanting to run a script from an unfamiliar site, I do a quick search.  If the 
new site touts ads, social media, tracking, SEO, or most of the other current 
web stuff, I ban it.  For the most part, once I have things set up the sites I 
usually visit come up relatively clean.

Ray Parks
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On Mar 17, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> I've mentioned turning off 3-rd party cookies.  Here Bruce Schneier, author 
> of the cyber-math texts and several security books (Secrets and Lies my fav 
> so far) discusses just how pervasive tracking is.  
> 
> Reading between the lines, I believe 3-rd party cookies are part of this 
> particular game, although Bruce says cookies aren't the only culprit.  But 
> looking at the 3rd party cookie alerts I get on every page now has me 
> wondering.
> 
> Anyway, another good read from BS.  (Oops?!)
>     
> http://us.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html
> 
>    -- Owen
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