Private Browsing

How to use private browsing mode, what it doesn’t protect against, and why Google is deleting five billion dollars’ worth of user data.

Every time a browser interacts with an advertising tracker, a program called Googerteller emits a short sound.

We explain how cookies affect your privacy online.

Hiding your guilty pleasures from prying eyes is possible, but you need to do it properly.

Tools and approaches to help you get some online privacy.

The tools that can help preserve your online privacy.

Creators of ad mailings and spam are very interested in knowing whether you read their messages. This post explains how to protect against e-mail tracking.

Websites are logging your clicks, keystrokes, and more

Have you ever visited Amazon.com only to find items you’d forgotten in your shopping cart? Returned to Hulu and found you were already logged in? Have you ever noticed how

Public awareness of — and wariness about — Web privacy continues to grow. That should come as no surprise: These days, pervasive cybertracking affects everyone. In this article, the last

For centuries, advertising was fundamentally unidirectional. A company blasted out advertising and the public — actually, not a very predictable portion of the public — received it. That’s still the

Social networks, online news outlets, media service providers, online shops — all of them offer high quality content, compared to the Internet of the past. To get to this quality,

You may not know this, but when you request something from a search engine, buy a product from an online shop, visit your favorite blog or read the latest news

When you search, watch, read, or purchase anything online, the information on your clicks, search inputs, visited websites, or purchases article is logged. This data is available to both website

Over the past few weeks, you have more than likely seen our research on Digital Amnesia. It is also quite possibly that you may have forgotten it, given your affliction