[bestwriter]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/26/india-to-investigate-alleged-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-facebook

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You must have heard of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook% ... ta_scandal

Have you as an individual felt its effect in that do you think when you get emails offering products could that be the result of this company passing on your information to various manufactuers and others.

What is your view on this?

[Netherrealmer]

We can set our account to be private and use our browser on incognito mode.

[bestwriter]

We can set our account to be private and use our browser on incognito mode.

I read about the incognito mode but that has limitations.


https://productforums.google.com/forum/ ... 9kLCE6QpYJ

[darkthorn]

Well you can use a VPN to keep your privacy safe but you also have to be aware of the websites you visit, accounts you create. It is almost impossible to keep 100% of your activity private but the VPN is probabily the best option for that.

[katkat]

What is the limitations of incognito mode? I hope you can share what you think can be of help.

[bestwriter]

What is the limitations of incognito mode? I hope you can share what you think can be of help.

You will find it here

https://productforums.google.com/forum/ ... 9kLCE6QpYJ

[riddy09]

You can use any secured sites, like, for emails, protonmail.com. For web browsing, a TOR brower. For search engine, DuckDuckGo. And you have an app that manage your passwords not saved in browser or other unsecured storage.

[chicnthin]

I only switch my browser into incognito mode, I dont know any other.

[bestwriter]

You can use any secured sites, like, for emails, protonmail.com. For web browsing, a TOR brower. For search engine, DuckDuckGo. And you have an app that manage your passwords not saved in browser or other unsecured storage.

What about surveys and others that ask for personal information, collect that and sell it to others? One gets tempted to fill up those surveys that pay.

-- 28 Jul 2018, 06:55 --

Well you can use a VPN to keep your privacy safe but you also have to be aware of the websites you visit, accounts you create. It is almost impossible to keep 100% of your activity private but the VPN is probabily the best option for that.

VPN does not take care of information that we volunteer to provide and that the belongs to sites that ask for it.

-- 28 Jul 2018, 06:56 --

I only switch my browser into incognito mode, I dont know any other.

Going into cognito mode does not guarantee full protection. This link has it all

[cmoneyspinner]

Supposedly that was the reason the Darknet was created. To maintain one's privacy and anonymity.

I'm on the Internet because I'm trying to create a public persona. My private stuff that I don't want people to know, I don't put it out there. I'm already ticked that a lot of my information is being circulated by parties that don't even know me. On top of that, they got the stuff screwed up! And I'm not going to "unscrew" it. I didn't tell them to put it out there and they're not to create extra unnecessary work for me to fix it! If somebody asks or needs to know I'll just say "That ain't me!"

People can say there are ways to keep your activity totally private on the Net. But if I believe that I might as believe that the pope is secretly Jewish!

[bestwriter]

Supposedly that was the reason the Darknet was created. To maintain one's privacy and anonymity.

I'm on the Internet because I'm trying to create a public persona. My private stuff that I don't want people to know, I don't put it out there. I'm already ticked that a lot of my information is being circulated by parties that don't even know me. On top of that, they got the stuff screwed up! And I'm not going to "unscrew" it. I didn't tell them to put it out there and they're not to create extra unnecessary work for me to fix it! If somebody asks or needs to know I'll just say "That ain't me!"

People can say there are ways to keep your activity totally private on the Net. But if I believe that I might as believe that the pope is secretly Jewish!

Well put. You are right about volunteers wanting you to become famous not necessarily rich. I am vary of surveys

[Jaydon.thomas]

You can do that on your system or with your emails

-- 29 Jul 2018, 16:32 --

You can do that on your system or with your emails

[bestwriter]

You can do that on your system or with your emails

-- 29 Jul 2018, 16:32 --

You can do that on your system or with your emails

But I keep getting spam from those that were never given my email address. The only thing I do is each time I get such mail I unsubscribe it

[MeowsePad]

VPNs work pretty well for maintaining relative anonymity on the Internet. However, people can always find ways around any measures we take for our privacy.

[bestwriter]

VPNs work pretty well for maintaining relative anonymity on the Internet. However, people can always find ways around any measures we take for our privacy.

Even if we do not subscribe to these sites they somehow get to us. If we have to stop them we have to open their message atleast once just to unsubscribe as, if we just ignore they will keep coming.

[carloskasper]

just using VPN i think to anyone know what are you real IP

[FeedMeMore]

Maybe someone added your email into one of these public mailing lists and now random people are using these lists for spam reasons or email marketing.

[bestwriter]

Maybe someone added your email into one of these public mailing lists and now random people are using these lists for spam reasons or email marketing.

This happens all the time and to unsubscribe we have to open the mail or just put up with it and just delete it each time it appears - a nuisance really

[CyberFreak]

This happens all the time and to unsubscribe we have to open the mail or just put up with it and just delete it each time it appears - a nuisance really

Sometimes it is better to not unsubscribe from "spam" emails (or emails you are not expecting) as it can verfiy to them that it is an active email account and therefore they might spam more or sell on your email address in a list of "active" email addresses.

[Netherrealmer]

I always use incognito Windows when I am doing online activities. Also I have a separate personal email and Business email. My business email gets all the spam in the world.