FireFox: Start Browsing Privately

[GeoPharmer]

Im not one for paranoia posts, but figured it was worth asking/mentioning since the stickies that touch on the IP/ping/traceroute by the wigglies is locked.


I noticed after the last update of firefox theres a spot on the "tools" section.
It says start browsing privately. I have no idea if this would prevent someone from seeing where you are, or where you were. But figured it might be worth mentioning incase anyone wanted to use it.

It just opens a new instance of firefox and when your done it disapears and your old tabs you had open come back. Id imagine its great if you on a public computer, or using a computer in a house that everyone uses. But was curious what the "geeks" around here thought about its implementation on sites like these on a private computer to cover your tracks?


thnx!

 

[Locked]

This is from Fire Fox's site...

"As soon as you activate Private Browsing mode in Firefox, all what you’ve browsed, cookies, and data are stored temporarily, i.e., as soon as you end the session, everything will be flushed out with no traces left behind of your browsing history!"

Kinda nice since I am always going to tools and then clearing my history once a day...I love Fire Fox by the way...I use it all the time...looks like it just got better....

 

[StoneyBud]

Every time your PC passes through another server, it's IP address, where you came from and where you went to is recorded. How long it's resident on the server depends on about a million variables.

Only God and the Government know how many other toys they have and use. They have an extra set of buttons to the pod bay doors. They can bypass Hal.

It makes hardly any difference what's on your PC. If the piggies want to dig hard enough, they can tell you when you were at your Aunt Fannies last Christmas and how many servings of dumplings you ate, (figuratively).

All it takes is time and money.

Those would depend on how much they want to bust you.

Sorry to pop your balloon, but that's reality.

 

[UKgirl420]

you can also do the same on internet explorer ,,,,and i suppose anyother programme u use ,,just set your setting to clear history when exit ,,,but like potus said its not hard to find out where you have been eace:

 

[dirtyolsouth]

Folks... NO worries! The ONLY sure-fire way to be COMPLETELY anonymous on the internet is to wear my patented internet cloaking helmet and you must plug your ears or they'll use a high tech earwig against you...


It works like a charm!

 

[StoneyBud]

One more thing...IP cloaks. Total waste of time in most cases.

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) has to be able to know who you are when you use the Internet on their server, right? That's why you log onto their server with your account ID.

You can buy all the IP cloaks you want, but your ISP tags every single keystroke you make with your account ID. They know exactly who you are. So does anyone else who knows how to ask their server for the reference account.

IP cloaks are nothing more but a "feel good" purchase. They actually don't hide a single thing. Anyone who tells you differently is blowing smoke up your proverbial rear end.

The Internet is not anonymous. It never was and never will be.

If you can start an Internet account with a phony name and address, then sure, it's anonymous. The person you signed up as, doesn't exist. It's also illegal to do so in most countries. If they catch you, it can carry a hefty fine and possible jail time.

 

[The Effen Gee]

I run some pretty sweet plugins to help mask my tracks.

Really though, I don't have anything to hide from "Them".

..They get their money.

 

[StoneyBud]

I run some pretty sweet plugins to help mask my tracks.

Really though, I don't have anything to hide from "Them".

..They get their money.

As long as the cops stay out of your life, that's exactly right!

If you got your Internet service with your real name, every time you log on, your ISP knows that you're on. They also know every place your account goes to from their server. There is no way to mask it. I have a good friend who owns an Internet company. He's been involved with some of the court cases that involve the usage of his service. He tells me that the IP maskers are pointless. His service, by law, has to track your usage. You can't stop them.

That may be different with the laws outside the USA, but USA law tells the Internet companies what they have to do to retain their licences.

He showed me a readout of about 200 pages on one of the accounts that uses an IP masker. It showed not only why he was trying to hide it, but also every server he touched while online. He is the one who assured me that the only way to really hide it is to join using a fake ID. Then you truly don't exist, but everywhere you go will still be tracked, every second.

Server ID's can't be fooled. Your ISP records every one you visit by law. The FCC makes them do it. Homeland Security can track your account anytime they have a reason to. Big Brother is already here.

Save your money for a set of fake ID's. Pay for another account using them.

 

[HippyInEngland]

I often surf using my mobile phone instead of my PC.

Its a pay as you go, no name or address, all top ups are paid with cash so no card tracks.

Not ideal, but its as anonymous as you can get.

I dont worry about my connection to the net, if they want me, there would be no stopping them.

eace:

 

[dirtyolsouth]

I can't help but reassure myself that Homeland Security or whatever entity of Big Brother that exists has way too much on it's plate to worry about some guy growing weed in his closet. They're hopefully much more concerned with internet users looking up information on bomb making, child pornography, hate crimes, nuclear plant details or meth lab instructions, etc. for that matter... The list goes on and on and on...

Happy Growing!

 

[StoneyBud]

I can't help but reassure myself that Homeland Security or whatever entity of Big Brother that exists has way too much on it's plate to worry about some guy growing weed in his closet. They're hopefully much more concerned with Internet users looking up information on bomb making, child pornography, hate crimes, nuclear plant details or meth lab instructions, etc. for that matter... The list goes on and on and on...

Of course that's the case, or you, me and millions of others would all be in jail already.

The worry is *after* you become interesting to the cops or government. Depending on the intensity of their interest, your web history can become an open book to them.

My point being that clearing your history on your PC will help keep those who have immediate access to it from finding your path to whatever, but it won't do a single thing to protect your surfing history on the other thousand servers you've touched.

If you log onto the web through an account you've paid for with your real name, then your history is available to anyone who knows how to look for it. You can't hide what you've done after logging on with your home account, which is based on your real name.

The folks who *sell* the masking software are counting on your ignorance of the truth when selling you their product.

The end result is that if you want to stay anonymous, then just stay out of anything that could result in the cops wanting to look more closely at your Internet surfing, because if they *do* want to look at it, it's an open book as long as you're logged on using your real name.

One of the tricks the gubmint uses is to flag certain word combinations. If you use the ones they're interested in, and use them in enough places for their bots to pick up on them, then you can attract their personal attention.

People who are already flagged as "persons of interest" are bot watched extensively. You run into publicized cases all the time which say things like "Mr. Smith has a history of using this or that type of website".

The tracking pages my friend showed me, impressed upon me just how much can be told about anyone by nothing more than a couple hours of educated research done by someone who knows how to do so via the net.

Pretty scary stuff, that.

The average person never has any contact with anything that puts them into the eyes of those who care. That's the trick.

The danger to all of our freedoms is the gubmints constant attempts to bypass our privacy and their desire to be able to use anything they find by any means against us.

If they ever win in that attempt, then *1984* would become a reality.

Until then, our rights to privacy protect us as long as we don't give up those rights by doing something stupid.

 

[ArtVandolay]

Folks... NO worries! The ONLY sure-fire way to be COMPLETELY anonymous on the internet is to wear my patented internet cloaking helmet and you must plug your ears or they'll use a high tech earwig against you...


It works like a charm!

Your pets are also security risks and need protection.

 

[StoneyBud]

Your pets are also security risks and need protection.

Thanks man, I may have just done it in time!

And the car!

And the teddies!

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