Sometimes, you must be embarrassed while reading some of the articles on Washington Post because that connects your Facebook account and whatever you read, is being shared to your Facebook friends. Uum! Recently Germany accused Facebook of Privacy breaches and filed a suit against them. Wikileaks too came out with a warning to Social Media users to take care of their data being sold to corporate companies. Facebook is the website which we use it everyday. We share our public things to all our friends but what about our private information getting leaked and that too without our knowledge and permission? Yes, Facebook is tracking our every move and this is how we can stop it:
- Facebook Privacy List for Adblock Plus is perfect for those of you who already have AdBlock Plus installed (get ABP for Chrome or Firefox). Just download the subscription and add it to AdBlock Plus to specifically block Facebook plugins and scripts all over the web—including the Like button-whenever you’re not visiting Facebook directly.
- Facebook Disconnect for Chrome keeps Facebook from dropping those tracking cookies on your system in the first place, and disables them when you’re finished using Facebook-enabled services. It’s essentially an on/off switch for third-party access to Facebook servers, meaning you’ll still be able to log in to Facebook and use the site normally, but when you’re visiting another site or using another application, that site or service won’t be able to use your information to communicate with Facebook.
- Disconnect for Chrome and Firefox is a new plugin from the developer behind Facebook Disconnect, but it doesn’t stop with Facebook. Disconnect takes protection to a another level and blocks tracking cookies from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Digg, and Yahoo, and prevents all of those services from obtaining your browsing or search history from third party sites that you may visit. The app doesn’t stop any of those services from working when you’re visiting the specific sites, for you can still search at Google and use Google+, but Google’s +1 button likely won’t work on third party sites, for example. The extension also lets you see how many requests are blocked, in real time as they come in, and unblock select services if, for example, you really want to Like or +1 an article you read, or share it with friend
These are some of the tools that may help you keep your private data secured. Atleast by not getting leaked without your knowledge.
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