Block Google Search click monitoring

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GreaseMonkey provides Javascript triggers upon certain websites allowing to ‘take control’ of the web experience (only available for Firefox). Its own website defines it as:

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function.

It has a really big library of user created scripts: UserScripts. There you can find scripts for a wide variety of functions. From customizing the web to provide a real privacy enhancement. There so many that sometimes is difficult to find what you’re looking for.

I’ve found a reliable script to block Google Search click monitoring. Google’s annoying ‘onmousedown’ event will send your click to them before going to the clicked link. Allowing them to provide a reliable list of websites you’ve viewed for targeted advertising purposes.

So, Install GreaseMonkey extension on your Firefox if you haven’t done it yet and Install Google Search – Remove Redirection before Google knows more about you than your own granny!

Cookies. Why I use AdBlock

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I’ve been using AdBlock Firefox for quite a long time. At first it was about Advertisers but finally turned out to be a great privacy tool keeping thouse dangerous cookies away from my computer. A few days ago I read a great article on the Wall Street Journal about the privacy issues that third party [...]

Automatic SSH tunnels on demand

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Sometimes you have to build an SSH tunnel to access some remote service not directly available or not secure enough (think about an internal Jabber server, for example). This occasions I normally open an SSH session with the remote host tunnelling the services I want to access. It’s a bit annoying having to open a [...]