Monthly Archives: October 23, 2018

Link shimming and how Facebook tracks you with links

You’ve probably never heard of link shimming but have seen it many times. Links posted on sites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, appear as l.facebook.com, t.co or lnkd.in. Let’s look at it with Facebook link shims as an example. What is link shimming? Links that you share on Facebook get internally translated into another URL. […]

How to improve your security and privacy in Firefox

This article about enhanced privacy and security in Firefox was initially written back in April 2017. Now in October 2018, we gave it a new look and updated the list of add-ons to keep this post up to date. Firefox is an open source browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It’s a very popular browser […]