Rick Moen wrote:
Abine is the company that took the indispensible Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) project proprietary, _but_ they then cooperated and shared information with the subsequent open-source fork from the last open-source version of TACO, a very nice project called BeefTaco.
As to cookies, I take a scorched earth approach of deleting anything that looks remotely like browser-created state every fifteen minutes. http://cyber.com.au/~twb/.bin/twb-privacy This requires that you quit your browser when you finish using it, which for some reason normal people don't do. Otherwise the browser's FDs stay open and it keeps on trucking. The script above also eats browser plugins, which was kinda annoying when I was trying to hook up whatever-the-hell-mozex-became to let me use a sensible editor with redmine (which hasn't heard of "progressive enhancement" and needs js to do anything)... fortunately that got fixed by telling redmine to listen to email like an ITS should. I also miss polipo's censorReferers = maybe option, which would only include the Referer if the TLD was the same. So for example, if you went from ddg to frobozz.net, frobozz wouldn't know it was ddg who sent you. But if you tried to use a web app that needed Referer (like... ugh... webmin) it would still work.
I and all other users of my infrastructure enjoy _not only_ better privacy and security, but also better Web browser stability and performance. The difference is remarkable.
I also turn off CSS and images by default for the same reason :-)