One of the best things about the Firefox browser is the vast array of cool extensions available. Before we even begin, make sure you’re not using a Microsoft IE browser, it’s slow and filled with security holes. If you keep with the news, you’re probably aware of the Google-Viacom situation brewing. It concerns your privacy – check out Dan’s article Viacom Wants to Know What You’ve Been Watching to get updated.
Maybe you’re watching strange videos like, “Indonesian Cucumber Sex Secrets,” or “How To Steal Someone’s Identity the Easy Way,” and don’t want anyone to know…LOL. Generally speaking, if you’re logged into your Google account, everything you surf is logged and written to hard disk – permanently – where it can be studied, dissected and reanalyzed. Your entire on line life forms your secret profile. Imagine that everywhere you drove, everything you bought, everyone you talked to and so forth was recorded via outer space satellite and studied by governmental computer algorithms (they’re probably already doing that already). Well, that’s what Google and other search engines are doing. I personally don’t want Google or anyone knowing everything I do on line. It’s not so much having privacy because you’re a weirdo freak, it’s because you’re normal and Google wants to know your every move.
