Privacy Badger for Microsoft Edge (the new Chromium based one) : Note that mobile browsers, aside from Firefox on Android, do not have the ability to install extensions. I will list the various download locations for Privacy Badger below, depending on your browser of choice. They’ll have to move on to the next unassuming person. As far as the tracker is concerned, you just disappeared. It watches website behaviour as you move around the internet and if it finds the same tracker following you around from site to site, it blocks all communication to them. It can be installed into your browser as an extension. Privacy Badger is created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF – Defending civil liberties in the digital world since 1990!). Through a combination of browser cookie settings and an extension called Privacy Badger, you can drop off the trackers’ radar completely. Ok, so how can I get these trackers off my back?
Especially since the ads show up on completely different websites than the one you were originally searching on.Īdvertisers and other third parties track where you go on the web using a combination of web cookies and scripts, hoping to find useful data they can use to fingerprint you and target you with ads that you would be more likely to click, wherever you go.Įven if you use an ad-blocker (we’ll get to them later), they’re still collecting data on you whether you see the targeted ads or not. Sure, it can be helpful for the internet to seemingly read your mind, but it’s also a little creepy. I searched Amazon for ‘weighted blankets’ one time and now it’s the only ad I see! This article is by no means exhaustive, but it’s very effective considering the small amount of effort required. Privacy related browser settings to change.In this article we'll be looking at settings and extensions you can use in your browser of choice to make your browsing experience safer and more private.
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