> If you’re in that category, Ms. Winterton recommended Ghostery, a free plug-in for most web browsers that “blocks the trackers and lists them by category,” she wrote.
I’m not sure I can recommend Ghostery, as their business model is a bit suspicious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
> Using websites whose addresses begin with https are also safe; they, too, encrypt their data before it’s sent to your browser (and vice versa).
Safe from your public Wi-Fi operator. Not from the company with a tracking script on the page.
> You don’t sign into Apple Maps or Safari (Apple’s web browser)
You sign into the OS, though.
> You never want to tell Facebook where you were born and your date of birth. That’s 98 percent of someone stealing your identity!
I can literally Google this information. We need to stop treating knowledge of public data like this as some sort of identity metric.
I’m not sure I can recommend Ghostery, as their business model is a bit suspicious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
> Using websites whose addresses begin with https are also safe; they, too, encrypt their data before it’s sent to your browser (and vice versa).
Safe from your public Wi-Fi operator. Not from the company with a tracking script on the page.
> You don’t sign into Apple Maps or Safari (Apple’s web browser)
You sign into the OS, though.
> You never want to tell Facebook where you were born and your date of birth. That’s 98 percent of someone stealing your identity!
I can literally Google this information. We need to stop treating knowledge of public data like this as some sort of identity metric.