Sunday, 27 May 2007

keeping a second browser

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Keeping a second browser that does not contain all the cookies and settings that
your everyday-browser has but the proxy-settings for privoxy/tor that you don't want
in your normal browser is a good idea.
The problems begin when you realize that you cannot simply open another firefox-window
with a different profile.

This is what you should do for firefox:
  • while your everyday-firefox is running execute "firefox -ProfileManager"
  • create a new profile "anonymous" in another directory
  • Create yourself a link "firefox -P anonymous" to start your anon-firefox in parallel to your normal firefox
  • configure it for privoxy, cookie-deletion, not remembering everything,...

Here are a few notes on what we found out...

* google-calendar does not work with mozilla or konqueror, only firefox and co.
* google-analytics does not work with mozilla or konqueror, only firefox and co.
* google-spreadsheets does not work with mozilla
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Adding a calendar

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Next we want to add a calendar, showing the major privacy-related
events of the year in the homepage we created.

status: We ARE having some trouble doing this with either mozilla or konqueror (no firefox yet).
status We got it to run by using Firefox with TOR and Privoxy. You can access it here.
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Google Analytics

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So, as we want to know just how many
people are really reading this and what they
are reading we are trying to add google-analytics.

status: we could add the code to the google-pages-site but have trouble with the analytics-page and with the blogger-template-editing while using privoxy+tor.
We will keep you posted.
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Our own domain-names

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So... what did we do?
Since most public services on the net require an email-address,
we started with creating a gmail-account.
Thus we also have this blog and a site on pages.google.de .

As a next step we are trying to register the domains:
anonymity-blog.tk and

anonymity.tk/.
This way we want to get rid of the ".pages.google.com" and ".blogger.com"
in the URLs for our first 2 sites at the expense of a bit of advertisement.

status: The confirmation-emails have not arrived yet. Maybe gmail is blocked there or it simply takes a while. We will come back to this later.
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