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This is a big deal as long as website developers don’t take hp battery responsibility and secure their sites. But while we hold our collective breaths, here’s a handful of ways to protect your privacy, including our guide to removing your browser’s cookies: Close the Cookie Jar: How to Protect Your Privacy. Also a post dell battery at TechCrunch points out that there are two pre-existing Firefox extensions—Force-TLS 2.0 and HTTPS Everywhere—that force websites to use good battery the secure HTTPS protocol