When surfing from site to site, your behaviour is followed closely by “trackers”. These cookies are installed on your hard disk in order to present personalised ads. Can “Do Not Track” stop this?
Published 13.12.2012
Cookies - tiny files which websites deposit on your computer - are a necessary evil. However, not all cookies are bad, but how do you prevent the installation of “third-party cookies” which keep
track of what you’re doing on the Internet?
Published 30.11.2010
Gmail is an excellent webmail service, but it “scans” all your e-mails automatically and then displays discreet ads. There are some tricks for reducing the number of these personalised ads. What are
they?
Published 12.05.2014
When using a computer, and especially while accessing the Internet, you inevitably leave traces behind, some of this data may be privacy-sensitive. How can you keep this under control?
Published 11.10.2017
Advertisers are constantly trying to track you when you surf the Internet, applying all kinds of methods. Most modern browsers can block tracking cookies, but anti-tracking tools offer a safer
solution. How do they work?
Published 18.09.2013
Cookies are tiny text files which a webserver places on your hard disk. Some cookies are useful, but others monitor your surfing behaviour. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff and manage
cookies optimally?
Published 28.11.2016
Facebook has more than 750 million users. The company obtains the bulk of its income through advertising, as advertisers can perfectly gear their output to the profile of the users. So Facebook knows
quite a lot about you…
Published 10.11.2011
Are you set on safeguarding your online privacy? Although it’s impossible to surf the Internet without leaving any traces at all, here are some tips to reduce them to a minimum.
Published 23.02.2016