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Decentraleyes is a browser add-on used for local content delivery network (CDN) emulation, that protects your privacy by evading large CDNs (e.g. Google Hosted Libraries). In this guide, you'll learn how to install Decentraleyes on Firefox to prevent CDNs from tracking your online activity.

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One way to minimize tracking and improve your online privacy is to store as few browsing cookies as possible on your device. However, in websites such as your email client or your note-taking web application, it's practical to have cookies stored so that you don't have to login each time you visit. In this guide you'll learn how to install and setup Firefox Multi-Account Containers to keep parts of your online activity isolated from each other, thus reducing your digital footprint.

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Browser cookies can be useful but are often abused to track your online activity across the web. In this guide you'll learn how to install Cookie AutoDelete, a web-browser add-on that automatically deletes unused cookies.

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In this guide you'll learn how to configure your Chrome browser settings to harden your online privacy.

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Trackers are tools used by websites and apps to collect personal data about you, often with the goal of targeting you with ads. In this guide you'll learn how you can improve your online privacy by blocking trackers on Chrome and its derivatives (Opera, Chromium, Brave…).

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In this guide, you'll learn how to install Random User Agent on Firefox, an add-on to periodically change your browser's user agent and make it harder for trackers to fingerprint you.

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Decentraleyes is a browser add-on used for local content delivery network (CDN) emulation, that protects your privacy by evading large CDNs (e.g. Google Hosted Libraries). In this guide, you'll learn how to install Decentraleyes on Chrome (and derivatives) to prevent CDNs from tracking your online activity.

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Browser cookies can be useful but are often abused to track your online activity across the web. In this guide you'll learn how to install Cookie AutoDelete, a web-browser add-on that automatically deletes unused cookies.

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In this guide, you'll learn how to install Random User Agent on Chrome (and derivatives), an add-on to periodically change your browser's user agent and make it harder for trackers to fingerprint you.

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DNS level content blocking prevents your device from connecting to servers that serve you unwanted ads and that track you, which can minimise the amount of data you share with third parties. In this guide, you'll learn how to setup a DNS level content blocker to block Ads and Trackers across your Android device.

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Android offers a way for advertisers to uniquely identify you in order to track your activity across applications and websites you consume on your mobile device. In this guide you'll learn how to hinder tracking on your Android device either by periodically resetting your Ad ID or by opting out completely.

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This satirical video is a critique of the UK government's reliance on 'technological solutionism' in the fight against Coronavirus and increasingly across public services more widely, and their willingness to then scapegoat ‘mutant algorithms’ when their hopes for technological panaceas inevitably fail.

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Privacy International today launch a specially commissioned video by Cassetteboy, about the UK government’s technological hubris in response to the Coronavirus crisis.

News & Analysis

Google is pushing a new "stalkerware" policy to reduce the spread of spying apps. But the tolerance for parental and enterprise monitoring apps leave the door open to abuse

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The HTTP referrer header can be very revealing in the context of online tracking. Learn how you can change the policy in Vivaldi to force the browser to include the minimum information in this header or even block it entierely.

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The HTTP referrer header can be very revealing in the context of online tracking. Learn how you can change the policy in Opera to force the browser to include the minimum information in this header or even block it entierely.