(If you're just stopping by to see if anything's been added, you can go straight to the final additions based on suggestions from the comments)
In the unlikely event that people haven't heard about Google's new privacy policy, going into effect on March 1: it will merge any Google accounts you have and link them into one account under one privacy policy.(Er, obviously I can't see them being able to link accounts that don't already have some point of connection between them, like a contact email addy -- but if they can find a link, they'll merge them, as far as I can tell.) ETA from comments: Google may also just be looking at cookies left on your computer, and linking accounts that have no visible connection - they consider it a feature, not a bug. Joy.
ETA more, as we inch into March 1: And a clarification on the merging thing: by that I mean that if you sign up for two products using name@example.com, and pseud@isp.com, Google may well decide those addresses belong to the same person, because it's working off cookies on your computer, and will treat them as one identity. Google will not merge name@gmail.com and pseud@gmail.com into one identity: It's not possible to merge two Google accounts (per Google Help documentation). So the safest way to have multiple identities in Google's eyes is to use Google identities. /ETA
( The new policy and what it means for you )
( How to keep this from affecting you -- much )
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ETA:
More suggestions from the comments; I didn't want to add them to the body of the post at this point, so people don't have to re-read the whole thing. So:
More browser extensions to help with security:
Do Not Track Plus Another extension to stop trackers (Mac or PC; Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE)
HTTPS Everywhere Sends you to secure URLs whenever possible (stable for Firefox, beta for Chrome/Chromium; no other browsers)
Collusion Opens a tab that creates a steadily updated view of who's tracking you across the web as you browse. (Experimental, Firefox only)
Prevent G-chat logging:
From![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moonplanet: "If you are chatting on gmail chat, it logs your chat conversations. If you install a chat client like Pidgin and install the OTR plugin ("off the record") on both sides (so you and the person you're chatting with), the chats are logged as unreadable text. Adium (for mac) also has the possibility for OTR."
In the unlikely event that people haven't heard about Google's new privacy policy, going into effect on March 1: it will merge any Google accounts you have and link them into one account under one privacy policy.
ETA more, as we inch into March 1: And a clarification on the merging thing: by that I mean that if you sign up for two products using name@example.com, and pseud@isp.com, Google may well decide those addresses belong to the same person, because it's working off cookies on your computer, and will treat them as one identity. Google will not merge name@gmail.com and pseud@gmail.com into one identity: It's not possible to merge two Google accounts (per Google Help documentation). So the safest way to have multiple identities in Google's eyes is to use Google identities. /ETA
( The new policy and what it means for you )
( How to keep this from affecting you -- much )
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ETA:
More suggestions from the comments; I didn't want to add them to the body of the post at this point, so people don't have to re-read the whole thing. So:
More browser extensions to help with security:
Do Not Track Plus Another extension to stop trackers (Mac or PC; Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE)
HTTPS Everywhere Sends you to secure URLs whenever possible (stable for Firefox, beta for Chrome/Chromium; no other browsers)
Collusion Opens a tab that creates a steadily updated view of who's tracking you across the web as you browse. (Experimental, Firefox only)
Prevent G-chat logging:
From
moonplanet: "If you are chatting on gmail chat, it logs your chat conversations. If you install a chat client like Pidgin and install the OTR plugin ("off the record") on both sides (so you and the person you're chatting with), the chats are logged as unreadable text. Adium (for mac) also has the possibility for OTR."
