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Collin M. Barrett

Collin M. Barrett is a staff software engineer in Memphis, TN.

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A collection of my blog posts tagged as being related to Google including its policies, products, and services.

Hardening Firefox. Replacing Chrome.

Hardening Firefox. Replacing Chrome.

Published: 8.7.17

Using Firefox instead of Chrome on the desktop, and how I am hardening Firefox to increase security and privacy. [Read More]

Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy

Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy

Published: 4.11.16

How to configure your browser to block web fonts to speed up your web browsing and protect your privacy. [Read More]

1 Time When It Is Good to Lie

1 Time When It Is Good to Lie

Published: 2.26.16

I recommend lying properly on website security questions to block hacks by data miners and phishers. [Read More]

Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts

Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts

Published: 2.23.16

By implementing .woff2 and slimming down my icon font, I reduced the weight of my site’s fonts by about 50KB. [Read More]

Decentraleyes: Block CDN Tracking

Decentraleyes: Block CDN Tracking

Published: 2.3.16

Decentraleyes is an add-on for Firefox that blocks CDN tracking by intercepting requests to common JavaScript libraries and serves them from a local store. [Read More]

DIY VPS Build Guide for Fast and Cheap WordPress Hosting

DIY VPS Build Guide for Fast and Cheap WordPress Hosting

Published: 1.23.16

A verbose build guide for a modern, high-performance production WordPress VPS. Stack: Ubuntu, NGINX, MariaDB, HHVM, Redis, Let’s Encrypt. [Read More]

Automatic VPN on Android with Tasker and OpenVPN

Automatic VPN on Android with Tasker and OpenVPN

Published: 1.17.16

How to automatically connect to VPN on Android using Tasker and OpenVPN Connect based on the network to which you are connected. [Read More]

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