CYcyberviewer·Aug 19, 2013Submission
Many organizations attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by browsing the internet randomly in the background.
51 points · Open discussionXodarap
Paranoid-Browsing
JavaScript2013–2013
Xodarap / Paranoid-Browsing
Paranoid-Browsing
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 11 | 2013-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 12 | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 13 | 2013-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 14 | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 15 | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 16 | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2013-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 18 | 2013-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 19 | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI don't know of anything else for FF, but it's [open source](https://github.com/Xodarap/Paranoid-Browsing) and in Javascript, so I assume a port wouldn't be too hard for anyone who knows the FF add-on model.
In Show HN my weekend project: Paranoid Browsing