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
Your browser is probably the program you use most often. If you wish to run as few privacy and security risks as possible when surfing, it’s essential to configure your browser properly. How?
Published 02.08.2011
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
Most modern browsers allow you to erase all your surfing traces. However, the latest browsers are also equipped with a “privacy” function. How does it work and what does it do?
Published 06.02.2009
When surfing the web you will inevitably have come across the numerous websites warning you via a pop-up that they use cookies. Why do these sites do this?
Published 11.06.2018
The news stories about Prism clearly demonstrate how the American NSA is capable of intercepting all electronic communication. What can you do to protect your online privacy at least to a certain
extent?
Published 30.08.2013
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
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
We’ve previously discussed various methods for plugging the “privacy holes” in the Google Chrome browser. Let’s see how you can do this in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
Published 15.03.2012
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