Enable Do Not Track In Chrome

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (Internet)
Q: How to enable "Do not track" on Google Chrome browser?

Opt out your personalized online Ads preferences via Cookies.
All your activities on web is collected for analyzing for interests and the data is used for online advertising purposes. And you will get advertisements on websites based on your interests. By enabling "Do Not Track on your browsers" the advertising network cannot track your personnel data like searched keywords, interests and more that used for your Ads preferense.

How Do Not Track works
Do not track disable the personalized ads based on your interest collected by cookies.

How to Opt out Do Not track on Chrome browser
Go to Chrome Web Store and search for "Do not track" and you can find many Chrome extensions (plugins) to add to Chrome and enable "Do Not Track" function.

Or you can use Google's own "Do Not Track" extension by clicking here

And after selecting your favorite extension click on "Add to Chrome". And you are now enabled "Do Not track" on your Google chrome browser.

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Google's Public DNS Servers

If your Internet Service Provider's Name server not working properly, frequent doun or may feel bit slower in name resolving, use Google's public DNS servers for faster name resolving.

Google has different name servers for both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. 

By using Google DNS server you can bypass some restrictions (if applied) in your ISP's name server. So you can access the complete web domains.  

The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) 

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

The Google Public DNS  addresses (IPv6)

2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844

You can use these above DNS servers by replacing your current using ISP's DNS servers or along with it (as alternate DNS server). 

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Find ip address of a website or a domain

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (Internet)
Q: How to find the ipaddress of a website or a domain?

Each website on the internet must have a unique IP Address. And they usually registered with a domain name like "foo.com", etc. You see that "domain name" of that website on the address bar while you browsing through a web browser. You can easily find the ip address of a website with simple commands.

Note: Make sure you are connected to internet directly(without proxies)

In windows Operating systems

Go to "Start"  -> "Run" -> and type "cmd"

C:\>nslookup facebook.com

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C:\>ping google.com

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In Linux Operating systems

Go to terminal 

Usage: #host <hostname>

[root@Fedora ~]# host facebook.com

facebook.com has address 69.171.224.11

facebook.com has address 69.171.229.11

facebook.com has address 66.220.149.11

facebook.com mail is handled by 10 smtpin.mx.facebook.com.

The ping command will also work in linux distributions

Eg: # ping foo.com 

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