A brief but effective tutorial about Enabling and/or Disabling ‘Location Tracking’ on ‘Opera’ browser.
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Here’s a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself. If the image shows a famous building or landmark, such as the Eiffel Tower or Niagara Falls, the task is straightforward.
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CelebrityNetWorth.com launched in 2008 because Brian Warner, a former finance major working at a digital media company, wondered what Larry David was worth. According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, Larry David is now worth $400 million.
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Google has agreed to be less controlling about what Android phone manufacturers can do in Russia, as the result of a settlement today with the country’s antimonopoly agency. In addition to paying a $7.
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Books can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It was Kafka, wasn’t it? Google confirms this. But where did he say it? Google offers links to some quotation websites, but they’re generally unreliable.
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“…Gmail: When you sign up for any online service, you usually need to add an email address. If you usually use a Gmail account, Deseat.me can scour your email to find everything you signed up for and offer you ways to delete your account…”
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After I registered the course I was not able to access it because “my browser didn’t allow the web storage” and, for this reason, a message informed me that it would be necessary to use a up-to-date browser as Chrome or Firefox.
The only problem is that I always use Firefox. Obviously a “particular” version of Firefox where I also added a bunch of different add-ons to enhance the privacy protection level of my navigation and, for this reason, the Google course was not available for me.
Normally I would have decided to quit the course because I prefer not to modify my Firefox configuration after I spent so much time searching the best add-ons to preserve a minimum of privacy. But, in this case, I really wanted to attend the course and so I decided to manually operate on the Firefox configuration to “solve” the problem and allow Google to keep all the information it would have considered as essential.
This is the list of what I did:
– open Firefox and type:
about:config
in the address bar.
– search for:
dom.storage.enabled
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Since some weeks ago, I used:
for my web search and I was able to open the main Google Homepage without to be redirected to any local Goole site.
What I usually obtained was:
1 – less “personalized” search results: the algorithm will be not “contaminated” by my local IP and I will able to find information “cleaned” by local trends;
2 – the possibility to use the “same” Google even when I am abroad;
3 – the security that my searches were always up-to-date respect the global actual trends. For my experience when I search some particular topics as “marketing” I obtain, in the first Google page, fresh news only using Google in its NCR version. If I try to use my local Google homepage I have to spend more time setting the Google’s “advanced search” or trying to understand what information are “really” fresh new.
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I found the right solution when I visited ycombinator.com and I found the post created by newman314 that submitted a link that combined NCR and SSL protocol (for a little bit of more privacy).
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=test&qscrl=1&n…
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=test&qscrl=1&ncr=1
Where the word “test” is what I am looking for.
Then I also found a faster solution by dragop:
http://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=cr
and, in the same webpage, a shorter version from 3dfan:
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr
On my side I prefer to use this other URL that gives me the same results through an SSL connection:
To be sure that the results were really the same and not simply related with the English language and influenced by the IP, I tested this URL comparing them from what I obtained from the above mentioned:
http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr
I discovered that what I “received” using encrypted.google.com are really the same links and they are not just the standard local results in the English language.
I know that cookies will not allow me to have real “septic” results but this is the first step to a less passive use of Google search because I would like to be a more active user and not just a passive customer pampered by Google.
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