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Are you protected against online tracking? The EFF's Cover Your Tracks site has the answer
Cover Your Tracks is an online test by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to determine how well a browser is protecting user data against online tracking.
When you connect to a site using a browser, information is revealed to the site automatically. Sites may run scripts to gather additional information about the device that is used, and all of that may be used to track users across the Internet.
Cover Your Tracks is based on EFF's Panopticlick tool that the organization launched in 2010 and updated in 2015. Panopticlick redirects users to the new Cover Your Tracks tool automatically.
A click on the "test your browser" button on the site runs a quick check that determines the following:
Is the browser blocking advertisement?
Is the browser blocking trackers.
Is the browser unblocking third-parties that honor Do Not Track?
Has the browser a unique fingerprint?
The test results are displayed on a single page right after the test.
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/12/28/are-you-protected-against-online-tracking-the-effs-cover-your-tracks-site-has-the-answer/
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Are you protected against online tracking? The EFF's Cover Your Tracks site has the answer (Original Post)
douglas9
Dec 2020
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luv2fly
(2,478 posts)1. Awesome thanks!
I thought I was pretty good at protecting myself and it turns out I am according to the link in the article. Thanks for this, I'll be sharing it with friends.
keithbvadu2
(39,907 posts)2. 1+
MontanaMama
(23,986 posts)3. Bookmarked.
Looks like I have some shoring up to do.
mitch96
(14,607 posts)4. I just checked my browser and it was leaking tracks. I went to settings and played around a bit
Didn't really do much until I went to "advanced" and there were a bunch of "experimental" options clicked. I did not click them, Apple did on my last upgrade. I unchecked all of them and then ran the test again..POOF!! A lot less leaky. So it looks like my apples were leaking experiments.
Not any more...
THANKS!!!