Online Privacy

Our favourite online privacy tips and links.

General Information

• Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide
• Escape your search engine Filter Bubble!

Hosts File

• hosts file: MVPS.org neat, big, semi up to date URL collection, size: ~650K
• your entry here plz edit me! :)
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Proxy Servers

• Privoxy non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
• Polipo lightweight caching HTTP proxy
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Browsers

• Opera
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Browser Extensions

• Ghostery
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Search Engines

• DuckDuckGo looks promising
• Google this URL uses https, the lightweight and fast PDA page, safesearch off, no personalisation or localisation. Handy and fast default search engine for the adress bar.

  https://www.google.com/pda/search?nfpr=1&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&pws=0&safe=off&filter=0&gwt=off&hl=en&q=%s

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Other

• GPG
• Tor
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Concluding

Always remember that in reality total privacy and security are an illusion. Good Luck!