Treat Google and Facebook like “Junk Food” and seek to limit your consumption
Google has become so useful in many areas that it has become an important tool in many peoples life. Google is also an extensive tracking engine that is building a very extensive and detailed profile on you. Microsoft’s Bing engine is doing the same thing.
- Don’t log into Google or logout when not using google tools.
- Use an alternative email platform to gmail
- Edit your google settings to reduce tracking. Google Privacy checkup
Google, democracy and the truth about internet search
FaceBook is another large scale profile builder and tracker.
- Logout of FaceBook when not using it (don’t surf while logged into Facebook)
- Delete Facebook cookies
- Don’t install FaceBook App or FaceBook messenger on your phone as it will send a lot of your data back to their servers.
Tic Tok
It turns out Tick Tok is very bad too