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An earlier post on how cookies are used to track you, explained how tracking cookies work. This post will show you how to stop websites from tracking you using Firefox 4. This latest release has a Do-not-track feature that lets you tell websites you don’t want your browsing behavior tracked.

By turning on the Do-not-track feature, Firefox tells websites you visit that you don’t want your browsing behavior tracked. Please note that honoring this setting is voluntary. To put it differently websites are not required to respect it.

Turning on the Do-not-track feature in Firefox 4

• Click the Firefox button at the top of your browser window and click options.
• Make sure you’re on the Advanced panel.
• Select the General tab.
• In the browsing section check the Tell websites I do not want to be tracked.
• Click OK to leave

Check the Tell websites I do not want to be tracked option

The Wall Street Journal posted a video on their Video Center in which it is very clearly explained how internet cookies are used to track you while browsing the web.

In the real world it is very hard to keep track of your preferences, especially between a variety of shops. In the virtual world it is too easy.