Hello,
I have been using Chrome for several years and found it to be good, however
when trying to do a search I am faced with a screen telling me to agree to their
Privacy terms and unless I do I cannot use their browser.
As far as I understand it they are collecting data in order to 'help' us by providing
a service to assist us to reach our favourite sites with a minimum of fuss.
However we all know there is a sinister side to their gathering of data.
Firstly, I do not want to be helped with finding sites. I am quite capable to find
anything I want by myself. I also do not want others knowing when I talk with relatives, friends,
have a bet, or watch Julia Roberts movies or even watch the occasional porn as most people do.
It is an invasion of my privacy, much like trying to have a private conversation with a close relative
or lover and having a stranger sitting at the same table. I just don't want it and find it implorable to the extent
that I would even consider giving up using the internet to maintain the freedom we supposedly are entitled to in Britain.
I came across a review of SRWare and thought I'd seek some answers to my quandary.
I would change browsers in a blink of an eye if I could maintain the strictest of privacy by what I watch or read
on the internet. For the record, I am a responsible 70 year old male who lives a fairly conservative lifestyle
and who like most people enjoy their privacy.
Thank you for letting me share my concerns and look forward to some refreshing feedback
Ian
How private is private ?
Re: How private is private ?
If you want to be 100% private, you have to use TOR. If you want better privacy, use Firefox. Chromium, or all users built on it, have the inherent weakness, that parts of information can be stored about you, and that without your knowledge. Afaik, it's i. e. impossible to block the so called "E-Tags" , which are something like cookies in Chromium, which often gets complained about, but not fixed. Chromium is the best browser in terms of speed, that's why I prefer Iron. To have better privacy and to be safer, I use a very good VPN and the following AddOns, which I can only highly advise to use aswell:
https-everywhere (tries to open any page under https instead of http, sometimes can break a feature of a site if it's badly programmed and doesn't support https, this is very seldom though, and there's the possiblity to enable single features or also all features for specific sites)
Ghostery (disable the homecall-options in the settings)
WebRTC-Block (saves you from RTC-attacks)
Block Referers (must-have addon, can also sometimes break the function of a site, but can be configured very well like https-everywhere. A site not working because of it is also very seldom. )
And ofc., you should configure your Iron, so that it deletes all information after exiting and doesn't accept 3rd party cookies. Deleting all information btw. can be done very elegently by using one of the freely available RAM Disks, and then configure Iron to store the Cache on the RAM Disk. Then configure the RAM Disk to not save its data when shutting down the system, done. This also greatly increases the speed during surfing. If you don't wanna waste 500MB of RAM to a RAM Disk, you can also delete all your personal data manually in the Settings or via tools like CCleaner. "It's ridiculous, that Chromium doesn't offer this feature" is the general consesus by many people on this topic.
https-everywhere (tries to open any page under https instead of http, sometimes can break a feature of a site if it's badly programmed and doesn't support https, this is very seldom though, and there's the possiblity to enable single features or also all features for specific sites)
Ghostery (disable the homecall-options in the settings)
WebRTC-Block (saves you from RTC-attacks)
Block Referers (must-have addon, can also sometimes break the function of a site, but can be configured very well like https-everywhere. A site not working because of it is also very seldom. )
And ofc., you should configure your Iron, so that it deletes all information after exiting and doesn't accept 3rd party cookies. Deleting all information btw. can be done very elegently by using one of the freely available RAM Disks, and then configure Iron to store the Cache on the RAM Disk. Then configure the RAM Disk to not save its data when shutting down the system, done. This also greatly increases the speed during surfing. If you don't wanna waste 500MB of RAM to a RAM Disk, you can also delete all your personal data manually in the Settings or via tools like CCleaner. "It's ridiculous, that Chromium doesn't offer this feature" is the general consesus by many people on this topic.