Private Browsing

What does this privacy tool protect you against?

Advertisers LOVE to know where you go online so they can show you ads, improve their services and sometimes make money by selling your data. They can do this in many ways: looking at what you search for in a search engine, putting little tracker files called “cookies” in your computer, and by identifying you and following you online based on things that you have installed on your device.

How can you apply your private browsing skills?
1. Use search engines that don’t keep track of what you search for, like DuckDuckGo.
2. Install browser plugins (sometimes called “Add-ons” or “Extensions”) like Privacy Badger and Ghostery to block trackers and make it harder for data collectors to recognize your device when you’re online.

Time to do a little investigation of your own!

Go to My Activity https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity and see what it says about what you’ve done, watched and searched with Google products.

Open a new tab or window and do a search, look at a map, send an email or watch a video on Google or YouTube. Go back to the My Activity page and see what’s new.