Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Browsers maturing.

So finally customers are having an upper hand while surfing internet. All these years, we had no choice. The browsers were driven by companies needs and less by privacy. It was not un common for sites to collect information with or without our consent. And the list of browsers was very much limited.

Firefox 4 and IE 9 have finally passed the control to us. The basic question is now like this.

a. Do we want sites to collect information on what we are doing on the net? Obviously the answer is NO. These two browsers allow us to browse freely. At least we are not bothered on who is tracking our movement.

b. Do we want Ads to keep coming up when and where we like? Definitely NO again. These two browsers let us do this. Try surfing any site, news paper, blogs, e-commerce and a host of sites with videos come up and running. And you are in a meeting, and this video starts to play with audio.

What about other browsers? Safari, Chrome etc etc. They are not yet there. So what should you do next.

a. Update your browsers if you are using IE or Firefox.

b. Move to these browsers if you are using others.

And drill down and make your settings. If you want to know how, then I will post that too.

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