Online privacy is a myth.
Here’s how these tools and schemes work.
URLtrackers are used to gather information about how you arrived at a destination.
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A unique pixel can be served to each visitor, which is used to gather your IP address.
This is also how canvas fingerprinting (and WebGL fingerprinting) works.
you’re free to’t delete super cookies since they exist at a internet level.
How Your Data Is Used
First-party trackers commonly gather information that relates to their own services.
This pop in of data makes your experience more convenient.
Is Gathered Data Really Anonymous?
There are potentially more nefarious uses for this data.
Advertisers often relay that gathered data is anonymous or anonymized, but this isn’t strictly true.
Consider what could happen if an insurance company could see your advertising profile or search history.
Dynamic pricing could also be impacted if a company understands more about you.
The easiest thing you could do is toenable Do Not Track in your online window preferences.
This relies onthird parties honoring your request, but it’s a start.
Better still, switch to a surfing app that provides more control over your privacy.
You caninstruct just about every web app to block third-party cookieswith a little bit of work.
DuckDuckGoalso hasits own net internet ride now, complete with tracking protection and a more private search engine.
Email is another leaky faucet when it comes to online privacy.
Apple Mail already includes robust privacy protection, with iCloud+ users getting access to Hide My Email.
Apple’sPrivate Relay promises to anonymize your web requestsin a way that not even Apple knows what you’re accessing.
Alternatively,use a VPN across the boardto encrypt all of your browsing data.
Alternatively, establishing an end-to-end encrypted connection using a VPN will also prevent super cookies from working.
