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Recent Windows versions are quite aggressive at tracking the things you do with your PC, both locally and online.
And as you might expect, Windows 11 does it big time.
For example, your Windows 11 machine takes note of the websites you visit, the ads you engage with and the things you search for in order to develop a customer profile on you.
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Question from Peyton: I recently dropped my old Yahoo email address and switched to Gmail.
But every time I load a page with Chrome the old email address keeps popping up in forms that ask for my email address.
I can delete the old address and type in the new one but I’d prefer not having the old one to pop up at all.
How can I fix this? [Read more…]
Did you know YouTube maintains a list of every search you’ve ever made via YouTube’s search box?
And did you know they also maintain a list of every video you have ever watched on their site?
This might not seem like a big deal to some folks, especially if the things they search for and the videos they watch aren’t controversial in any way.
However, you might consider it a huge deal if you go to great lengths to protect your online privacy.
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The ingenuity of hackers, thieves and other miscreants is unlimited it seems.
Every day they come up with new ways to scam, hack and break into computers in order to steal bank account and credit card numbers, photos, addresses, phone numbers and other pieces of sensitive information.
One of their most devious tricks is hacking into people’s computers and spying on them via their own webcams. [Read more…]
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By default, a sneaky Windows service that’s constantly running on your PC watches your every move and sends the data it collects about your computer usage back to Microsoft.
Unfortunately, there are a couple of serious issues with this… [Read more…]