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In the recent light of search engines giving up search terms to the government. A great article has been prepared to illustrate simple steps a user can take to protect their privacy.

What’s the first thing people should do who worry about their search history?
Cookie management helps. Those who want to avoid a permanent record should delete their cookies at least once a week. Other options might be to obliterate certain cookies when a browser is closed and avoid logging in to other services, such as web mail, offered by a search engine.

How do you do that with your browser?
In Firefox, you can go into the privacy preference dialog and open Cookies. From there you can remove your search engine cookies and click the box that says: “Don’t allow sites that set removed cookies to set future cookies.”

In Safari, try the free and versatile PithHelmet plug-in. You can let some cookies in temporarily, decide that some can last longer or prohibit some sites, including third-party advertisers, from setting cookies at all.

While Internet Explorer’s tools are not quite as flexible, you can manage your cookies through the Tools menu

Although the recommended methods are foolproof, if you are a privacy nut there are ways to completely cover your tracks my masking yourself completely with free tools and Firefox extensions

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