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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Tom Turner (seameadowlake at gmail.com):

> Aaron, thanks for the link to "'Incognito: A Guide to Security, Privacy,
> and Anonymity' [2]." I plan to look into that.
> Also thanks for the warnings about the "looonnnggg" links and the tracking
> by NordVPN. I already have Firefox and Chromium installed, so wasn't
> planning on using the links and hadn't checked them.

I wasn't going to say anything, but posting links like
"http://links.nordvpn.com/u/click?_t=f675640029a34d1f9a5b14c05f06483a&_m=f7d48b5add0a43e081be8227eb53f86b&_e=KbL78jwVf3VoQqu1p9r-iuC8Dv9p9cjBePJhdwYDe9W3FQ-f-A8LwNNhy8no6r92iAUD2VXkkK2h2ehyhEGn0Z_h3VCxfdF0GHt_M2jFscrLh5r1RsAbrzQI6FGP30i4jtt1wp7ZDc3IoSqZbOdKjoYZlAHKcy_uTCvRDaDmLB7swsT8qtm63TWAn4UA2w6F6IaYFts40cYa4LfnUBo6BI4FPr7bSARtBkHwxhaJRAa0Sa-FplHke-WTAF-kcq7p3fzcbykia7kFgKfp3BoH6gvXn-61yEfN2Za7y_yOorhrN0-5_xspAO-JtynWPTkPNnWCQVwbgG_RvClfXBwD4aWyGvr5PU3XCvLl-IyVmkc%3D" 
in a posting about "tools for security and privacy online" 
did strike me as ironic in the extreme.

(But I'm curious what 'checking them' would have consisted of.)

> I was most interested in the pointers to the Firefox Add-Ons uBlock
> Origin, HTTP Everywhere, Privacy Badger, and No Script. 
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

*guffaw*

> Searching the add-ons for "HTTP Everywhere" brings up HTTPS
> Everywhere, so the typo is of no effect.

BTW, I hear that, some time around the beginning of this coming April,
EFF is going to release a replacement for HTTPS Everywhere, to be called
Gopher Everywhere.