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If you’re concerned about your online privacy and want to know if your activity is being tracked, here are some steps you can take:
Install browser extensions that help you detect and prevent tracking. Here are a few recommended ones:
HTTPS Everywhere: This plugin forces websites to use encryption, protecting your online purchases, payment details, and general web surfing from malicious actors who may eavesdrop for theft purposes.
Privacy Badger: Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), it monitors third parties and ad networks attempting to track you through cookies and digital fingerprinting. It can even auto-block them.
Disconnect: Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, Disconnect visually shows you which websites are tracking your activity in real time.
Look at the programs running on your Windows taskbar. Some Internet-monitoring programs have icons there. Examine any suspicious ones.
Open the Windows Start menu and select “Control Panel.” From there, you can explore settings related to monitoring and privacy.
Services like Ghostery can tell you which third-party sites placed tracking cookies in your browser when a page opened. Ghostery also allows you to selectively block cookies.
Some of its recommended tools include:
Companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon are known to track online activity. You can check the percentage of trackers belonging to each major tech company using tools like WhoTracksMe.
Sign in with your Facebook account or email.