Why is Uber Trip Tracker Following You (And How To Stop It)?

Taxi Uber app’s new feature follows you for 5 minutes after you get out of the taxi, no matter if you continue using the app or not. It doesn’t mean, however, that you cannot get rid of this bothersome innovation. Suppose, you’re done with updating your app. What Uber does next is ask you...

Browsing the Web without Leaving Traces

Nowadays, it’s virtually impossible to go on the Internet without immediately drawing the attention of trackers, since agencies strive to learn as much as possible about you and sell this information to advertisers. We’ve already examined a number of available ways of hiding on the Net...

How to Improve Wi-Fi Signal at Home

Wi-Fi is omnipresent these days, and especially at homes. But its omnipresence doesn’t mean it works flawlessly all the time. The signal may be weak or lost altogether because of subtle factors you may not know about. This is why many Internet users keep asking, “How can I boost my WiFi?” So, what can...

How Can Encryption Protect You Online?

Computer encryption is hot these days. No discussion about privacy or security online will be complete without encryption. Lots of startups and established companies offer tools that provide Internet encryption solutions allowing you to avoid tracking, hacking, phishing, and other Internet threats...

Private Web Browsers For Your Peace of Mind

If you want to browse anonymously online, this is a tough quest. Not only big companies like Google and Microsoft, but also government agencies and regular hackers – all want to know what you’re doing online. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to shield oneself...

Phishing: What you Should Know to be Protected

Everyone these days seems to be scared of Facebook phishing scams and other forms of this plague. One of the main types of malware, phishing reminds us of catching a fish in a river. What’s the point here? What is a phishing scam after all? A phishing/fishing hacker pretends to be someone else: your...

Keeping Passwords in Browsers. Part 2: Mozilla Firefox

How do you retrieve passwords stored in Mozilla’s browser? Maybe you happened to ask Google “Help me find my password”? If you did, this piece is for you. Every modern browser these days has a password manager allowing you to save credentials you type on websites, like account passwords. So it’s quite easy to...

What is TOR?

Tor Browser is an anonymous Web browser. It hides your actions as you surf the Web and protects your connections with domains and servers from virtually any type of tracking. Tor Browser can also be used to access blocked sites. How can we know Tor’s IP addresses Tor servers addresses are published in ...

Top 5 Jabber Clients

Jabber is a software for communication inside a network with the same name. Due to high popularity of Jabber, there is a multitude of its clients out there: desktop programs for Windows, Linux, or Mac, smartphone versions for various platforms, clients for handheld computers and tablets...

Web Proxies and Why VPN is Better

A Web proxy is a website allowing you to open other sites through its domain. Web proxies have a number of disadvantages, so it’s more rational to use a VPN instead of them. All webproxies have a common trait: a special field where you type the URL you want to open anonymously. For example, ...

How to Clean Search History in Google

Hi everyone! I, Mr. Whoer, repeatedly talked on online surveillance. This means a set of actions and measures undertook by some people in order to know more about you. However, we’ve never yet addressed the question: what can you do to complicate this type of activity as much as possible? One of the steps...

How to See Your Computer’s MAC Address

The Whoer.net Blog team is again with you! Today we are going to explain in very simple terms the notion of the MAC address and where you can find it. In our previous posts, we mostly talked about IP addresses which serve as unique identifiers of devices in the Internet. However, in the offline...