Are Google and Facebook the only companies out there doing nefarious things with tracking activity online, even if you've told Safari not to accept 3rd party cookies? That seems doubtful. This seems like a huge overreaction, but in just a few minutes of casual web browsing, there are 44 websites which have stored cookies and other cache files on my computer. 'I don't trust anyone! I want to delete everything!' Brett Kelly did a nice write-up about that feature. Just drag the entry from 1Password to your the bookmark bar in your browser of choice. Option 4: Log in to Google quickly using 1Password - If you use 1Password, you can make a 'one click' bookmark for logging into Google/Gmail/Google Calendar/etc. I vastly prefer GrowlVoice to using Google Voice's website (although there are some Google Voice settings you can't access except through the website, but they aren't ones you'll probably use often). You can use Mail, Sparrow or Postbox instead of Gmail, or Bus圜al instead of Google Calendar. Option 3: Use an app instead - This may be too obvious to even suggest, but there are good alternatives for using Google's services in a web browser. Of course you could also use a Fluid browser instead. Option 2: Use Fluid or Mailplane for Gmail - I've been a Mailplane user since its days in beta, and it's my favorite way to use Gmail. Option 1: Use a different browser for Google - If you usually use Safari for your regular browsing, use Google Chrome for Gmail, Google Voice, etc. There are a couple of ways to work around that. Logging out of Google is easy, but if you want to use Google services like Gmail or Google Voice, you'll probably want to be logged in. Safe Google Search 'But if I'm always logging out of Google, won't I have to keep logging in to check my Gmail?' Just bookmark this link and click it whenever you want to do a Google search. Well, assuming that Google hasn't found another way to track you even when you aren't logged in, you can make a bookmark shortcut to make sure that you are always logged out before you do a Google search. Maybe you don't want a separate browser, but want to make sure that Google isn't associating your searches with your Google login. You can get that by telling the Fluid app to report itself as an iPad:ĭon't want a separate browser? How about a fast logout? For example, maybe you prefer the iPad (oh, I mean 'tablet') format. You can also change the User Agent which is sent to Google, which can change the format of the results. I've been trying to get Google to open results in a new window for years and they always forget that setting. The whitelist settings only let the browser bring me to Google sites, so any results I click on will open in my regular browser. No JavaScript means no Google instant, which I loathe, no little popup telling you they are changing their privacy policy. I do a similar thing for Google, but it's actually more restrictive: no JavaScript and no cookies allowed: Once the app is created, launch it, and separate the cookies from Safari:Īnd then set it so that any link off of Facebook will open in another browser (note: this is the default, you don't have to change anything to get it to do this): You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.

Bookmark feature in mailplane 4