How To Cover Your Ass On The Internet

Here’s How You Should Protect Your Privacy Online

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There are some obvious steps you can take to protect your privacy on the internet. How many steps you take depends on your personal preference and comfort level for how much information you share on the internet. People who have very little concern may not take any steps to hide their identity, while more paranoid people may take multiple steps to lock down their information.

Avoid Google (All Google Products)

Google uses all of its products to feed data into its digital advertising platform. This includes Google search, Chrome, Google Drive, Android and many other Google tools that you may use regularly.

What The Heck, Google? (Part 1)

Confuse The Trackers Collecting Your Data

One way to minimize the effectiveness of the tools that are tracking your data is to “confuse” them. Rather than blocking them completely, you can feed them false information so that the companies behind the trackers will have a harder time…