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The article mentions the difficulty of preserving or changing the privacy settings in Windows. Ironically if you want to prevent Firefox to "phone home", you will have performs man…

I'm not involved in Mega anymore. Neither in a managing nor in a shareholder capacity. The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China…

Don't forget that you can whitelist domains, or disable/enable them per session.

Pretty much this: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Note that certain adware/spyware domains, like google-analytics( look at the tags and ), are commented out, so edit the file as …

Where is the information being scraped from? I looked at the source but I'm hardly a JS/Web expert. Seems to be from here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges htt…

Don't worry, there are additional blocked domains just for that. :-)

Captchas are dismissive towards users. You throw humans and robots in the same basket and tell all of them to solve a puzzle or you won't talk to them.

I blocked the domain. If the site presents me with a re-captcha, I don't even have to think whether to use that site.

Practically speaking, you will get advertisements, that have a measurably larger chance of you following up on them, i.e. targeted adds.

Fabricating facts and using ad-hominem is not a very good way of backing up your arguments. Quote from the paper: We use the public GREYC keystroke benchmark database for this work…

By knowing in advance what the ratio is. Such a great system will do really well in the real world. ( You have a very ironic username given the circumstances. )

I wonder how popular are NoScript/AdBlock percentage wise these days?

I think you misunderstood the intention of this feature. The goal is to identify and/or profile users that themselves use just a regular log-in. This can be then used to improve ta…