Advanced Browsing: Mastering Web Mechanics

You can find your way around the web pretty well, you know the difference between a browser and a search engine, and can conduct a Boolean search in your sleep – but you’re daydreaming of taking off on the open road of the information superhighway without a care in the world because your passwords are strong, and you can tell when a site is trying to trick you into giving up your information – or accepting theirs, despite how unreliable the source.

• How can you decide which website comes from the most reliable source?
• “Password: password” be gone!
• Wax on, Wax off: learn to block ads like the Karate Kid blocks a kick to the chin.
• And more!