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1. Use a password rather than a PIN for local accounts. Whether you use a local account or Microsoft account, make sure you use a strong, alphanumeric password. 2. You don’t have to link your PC with a Microsoft account. You can create a local account instead. This avoids sharing data about your account, although you lose the ability to share data across devices. How: Settings > Accounts > Sign in with a local account instead 3. Randomize your hardware address on Wi-Fi. Enabling random hardware addresses makes you less prone to tracking across different Wi-Fi networks. Note that not all devices support this. How: Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi 4. Don’t automatically connect to open Wi-Fi networks. Windows 10 can connect to suggested open Wi-Fi hotspots automatically. Disable this setting to give you more control over your network connections. How: S ettings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi 5. Disable Cortana to keep voice data private. Using Cortana, the vo...

  Step 1. Download DuckDuckGo on all your devices With just one download you'll get tracker blocking, private searching, increased encrypting, and privacy grading on all of your browsing. Our mobile app for iOS/Android (DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser) and browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials) has all of this in one seamless package. Privacy, simplified. Step 2. Update your software Your device operating systems get out-of-date over time, and old software can contain security bugs or settings that leak personal data. Set your devices (and the apps on them) them to update automatically. That way you'll always have the latest, safest versions. Step 3. Update your privacy settings Make sure your devices are using the best privacy settings. Here are step-by-step instructions for all the major device types. Especially make sure you adjust per-app location settings, so that your location history isn’t leaking where it shouldn’t. For extra bonus...

  Google trackers are lurking behind most websites. Google can (and does) track your activity across many non-Google websites and apps. That may be surprising, even if you already know that when you use Google products like Google Search, Chrome, and YouTube, they collect a shocking amount of personal information about you. Google Analytics — a free Google service used by millions of websites and apps — is actually the biggest cross-site tracker on the Internet, lurking creepily behind the scenes on around 72.6% of the top 75k sites. While “analytics” sounds harmless and is in fact something websites need to improve their services, what’s happening underneath the hood with Google Analytics is anything but harmless or necessary. Unlike privacy-focused analytics services, Google uses their Google Analytics tracker for more than just providing information about site visitors and app users to the sites and apps themselves. In many cases Google also adds that same information to Google’...