How to Be More Anonymous Online
1 year ago

How to Be More Anonymous Online

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On the internet, everyone wants to know who you are. Using Chrome, the world’s most popular browser, neither tracking ads nor invisible trackers are blocked for me, and my browser has a unique fingerprint. Several privacy-focused browsers such as FireFox, the Mullvad Browser, and Brave offer enhanced protections against trackers and offer further customizable privacy settings. If you don’t want to switch browsers, there are some browser extensions that can block trackers within Chrome. On Walmart’s homepage, while using Chrome, for example, Privacy Badger blocked four trackers that were in use, while Ghostery identified five.

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Google Privacy, Advertising and Their Claims of Not Tracking You Online - News18
3 years, 10 months ago

Google Privacy, Advertising and Their Claims of Not Tracking You Online - News18

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Google is finally giving up on third party cookie tracking. Anyone on the internet today have either gotten too used to being tracked and served with targeted What is Google’s privacy pitch The blog post by David Temkin, product management director for Google Ads, Privacy and Trust underlines one positive thing – users, after all, have taken cognisance of the …

It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
5 years, 6 months ago

It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser

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Google's admission that, yes, it does track you while you're in Chrome's Incognito mode, is just the latest in a long line of unsettling revelations about just how keenly Big Tech keeps an eye on our movements every time we connect to the internet. As we've written before, Incognito mode and the equivalent modes offered by other browsers aren't as …

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