This is the 2nd of a 2 part article on Protecting Your Privacy while Surfing the web. Yesterday, we covered Google Chrome. Today will be covering Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.
There are many way companies track your information while you’re surfing the web. While they’re tracking your information, you want to protect your privacy. The main way they keep track of your information is through “cookies,” which is a small piece of code (crumb – following analogy of cookie) on your computer when you visit a site. These cookies are left when …

There are many way companies track your information while you’re surfing the web. While they’re tracking your information, you want to protect your privacy. The main way they keep track of your information is through “cookies,” which is a small piece of code (crumb – following analogy of cookie) on your computer when you visit a site. These cookies are left when you click on ads. Every time you visit the site where you clicked an ad, they track what you click on and show you ads related to what you …

Well, an interesting trend has developed. I stumbled upon a way to get to a stripped down search of Yahoo & Live (formerly MSN) , resembling Google in a big way. What’s really freaky is there are no ads at all on these 2 sites. Go to yahoo.com and msn.com and get pelted with ads. Go to Live.com, Search.msn.com, or Live.com and you’ll get no ads. You can also click on images on this page to get to the sites. The big Question of the day – when Yahoo …

Trillian
Do you Trillian? If you haven’t tried this cool program before, you must. It’s a combined Instant Messenger program which allows you to use your Yahoo! Instant Messenger, MSN, AOL IM, ICQ, IRC, and Jabber for Google Talk (pro version only). Sorry, only used for Windows PCs, not Macs nor Linux. For Linux, Mac, BSD, and of course, Windows, there’s always Gaim. With Trillian, there are tons of plug-ins, tons of skins, video chats, audio chats. Most of the features are free – the pro version is only …