Increase Your Privacy

Ever wonder why is it that in-spite of blocking cookies and disabling javascript, many sites still manage to give ads that seem to reflect your browsing history?

Well there is more to history than browser cookies (and browsing history saved in browser is often more valuable to a data mining site than mere cookies so clear it often). One leading culprit is 'flash cookies' or Local Shared Objects used by Flash. These are outside browser visibility and hence are never cleaned by browser thus occupying disk space and providing a tracking risk.

To avoid LSOs on Windows try these 2 steps

1. go to control panel -> java
Open General -> Temporary Internet Files -> Settings and disable "keep temporary files on my computer"

2. If you use firefox you can also install Better Privacy addon