Guides

Years of receipts, family notes, and account messages can disclose the shape of a life.

Waiting until after a profile is built leaves you fighting to remove copies from many companies.

Privacy promises matter less when nobody can inspect the software making them.

Tracking is not only a technical issue; companies also make policy choices about collecting and sharing your data.

One broken website should not force you to expose every other site to trackers.

When search, browser sync, ads, and website logins meet in one account, the resulting record becomes more revealing.

A platform should not gain a map of your reading simply because publishers embed its buttons or posts.

Data brokers benefit when many websites contribute observations tied to one person or device.

Consent banners can make surrendering data the quickest path to the article you wanted.

A protected laptop does little if the same trackers collect your browsing from your phone.

A tracking redirect can plant storage during a brief visit that was never meant to be a real stop.

Graphics APIs can expose device-specific signals that advertisers may combine into an identifier.

Language preferences and installed fonts can help identify a browser even when cookies are absent.

A video, widget, or embedded login can reveal your visit to a company you never opened directly.

Outside ad scripts increase the number of parties executing code while you read a page.

Security checks should not require handing a complete browsing log to a third party.

An extension can read or alter large portions of your browsing.

A file presented as an invoice or update can be a malicious program.

A website that distributes malware can turn a browsing mistake into a device compromise.

A convincing fake login page can take a password and then your accounts.