Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)

I always go to that site and leave again scared.

Is there any FF/Crome add-on that simulates the most frequent configuration setup? There got to be some out-of-the-box setups, that lets one fade into the mist of computer illiterates.

Wouldn't Tor be better? With a VPN, consecutive requests will still come from the same address, making it possible for a malicious network to track that address across sites. Tor can be configured to use a different exit node per host, or even per request.

Not really. It seems that every Android app I consider installing lately requests the "Phone Calls" permission, in order to grab my device ID. I believe there is an analytics library that most apps use now which relies on that to track users.

If you have a rooted Android phone I think you can install an app that lets you selectively reject permissions for new apps though.

Jailbroken iPhones have a way to reject requests to domains like Flurry. Regular iPhones not so much.

The intention for the site design was that your minimum request is listed at the top, and then more stuff is in the other tools to consider section at the bottom.

I don't use any plugins installed in Chrome but get all of the same benefits (I believe). Here's how:

    * restrict plugins like flash to click-to-play
    * disable all javascript
    * disable all cookies

Then whitelist the domains whose cookies and javascript you trust. The tools to do this are built into Chrome. It's a two- or three-click process upon visiting any site to whitelist its javascript and select which cookies to accept from a list. I have been browsing this way for about three years now and it's really quite nice once you get used to every site on the entire web being broken when you first visit.