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How to Enable “Do Not Track” on Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari on Desktop

Jaber Al Nahian — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:11:04 +0000

If you are a geek or a bit serious about online privacy, you must be familiar with the term “Do Not Track”, a new kind of privacy term used my modern browsers and websites. As per I guess, most people spotted the term first when installing Windows 8, where it asks the user whether to […]

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How to Start Firefox in Private Mode by Default

Jaber Al Nahian — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:30:03 +0000

When we surf the web with our favorite browser like Firefox, it remembers various kinds of information about our visits to sites and task. This includes but not limited to browsing history, search history, login history, form and fill data, etc. But the problem is, if we are using the browser in a public computer […]

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How to Disable Facebook Messenger Location Sharing on Android and iOS

Jaber Al Nahian — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:55:59 +0000

Today, Facebook has become the number one service to share with friends, family, colleagues and even unknowns. And it’s not new for Facebook to expose your personal information to your friends specially when it’s about location information. Facebook has a habit of encouraging users to share their location to friends as much as possible. Am I […]

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Always Run Google Chrome in Incognito (Private) Mode by Default

Jaber Al Nahian — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:28:13 +0000

Incognito mode in Google’s Chrome browser is a mode with which you can browse the web privately. When we use Chrome normally, many of our browsing data are stored locally as well as synced with Google account (if sync is turned on). Now that in some situations you may want to surf the web stealthily and […]

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Stop Facebook from Notifying Others when You are Friends with Someone

Jaber Al Nahian — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:56:03 +0000

When you are newly friends with someone on Facebook, Facebook notifies your other friends with a title like “X is now friends with Y” on their news feed! In most of the time, it shouldn’t look pleasing to you and sometimes it could be embarrassing. When someone knows you are now friend with someone, it […]

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How to Prevent Google From Saving your Search & Web History not to Get Personalized Search Results

Jaber Al Nahian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:37:45 +0000

Nowadays almost everyone uses Google to find over the web. When you use Google to search something on web, Google stores your search terms and visited URLs. Why? Because Google uses these information to deliver more relevant, recommended and personalized search results for further search. That means your past searches will reflect the results of new searches. Generally Google calls it “Web History“. But if you […]

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The Best Internet Security Advices for Safe Internet Usage

Robin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:59:43 +0000

The internet has become an important source for all the people in day-to-day life. Whenever we go to a vacation, we will come to know how to evaluate and re-educate ourselves about how to avoid disclosing personal information. So, we have to follow certain advices given by some companies for security when we use the […]

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How Fake Facebook Login Pages are Used to Hack Facebook Accounts

Jaber Al Nahian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:30:58 +0000

Nowadays getting hacked in common social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail has become a common situation. So I was thinking to share this important information with you all. First start with a little experience of mine : Once when I was surfing Facebook, suddenly I was prompted with a Facebook login window inside Facebook. Without […]

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