It’s a scary world out there and Vlad was wondering what I use to make browsing safer. Here’s a list ordered by how hard it is to live with::
- Password manager. There are two good ones. I’ve used Lastpass but 1Password at least is open source so you can inspect it.
- Two factor authentication. Turn on in as many sites as possible. Apple, Github, Dropbox, Google, etc. all support it.
- WOT. Web of trust, Gives you a rough view of what sites to trust.
- Startpage. It is google results, but they don’t keep track of you cookie or query-wise.
- Adblock Plus (depends on version). Ad blocker
- Ghostery. This an anti-tracker tool, blocks ad tracking websites, but it gets it wrong occasionally and disables sites. Blocks Facebook, Twitter and other bugs
- Javascript Blocker. The most annoying of all, but basically blocks Javascript elements and is the most intrusive
Then there are things that are good to load on your machine:
7. OpenDNS. These are DNS servers that promise they won’t record your queries.
8. Private Internet Access. This is a $10 a year service that is a VPN if you care about Comcast and others snooping you. Really a must for laptops that wander in wifi around the world 🙂
