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The paradox of privacy and security
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While privacy and security are a priority for people these days, the things they do to protect themselves may actually undermine it.
With all the spam phone calls, and even text messages, some people have been looking at installing a variety of apps to identify who the caller is. There are quite a few apps for this, but before you leap to installing one take a look at how they work and how it may affect you and your community of contacts in your phone.
Getting easier to de-Google or de-Apple
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You hate those ads and pesky messages from Google, but you’ve become increasingly dependent on their services, right? Cloud storage, Gmail, Google Calendar and so on have just become so necessary that you feel you have to put up with the intrusions on your privacy and constant marketing of 'stuf', and being stalked by trackers everywhere you go? Well, there are alternatives, but one is growing rapidly and can do everything you want and need without those downsides: the eFoundation (Android) operating system.
Tracking Pixel
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I learned a new term today: ‘tracking pixel’. Why should you care? Read on:
A tracking pixel is an HTML code snippet which is loaded when a user visits a website or opens an email.
… various information about the user is also transmitted using this method.
