{"id":29924,"date":"2025-03-09T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=29924"},"modified":"2025-03-09T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:01:39","slug":"find-out-what-kinds-of-breadcrumbs-youre-dropping-visit-the-cover-your-tracks-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/find-out-what-kinds-of-breadcrumbs-youre-dropping-visit-the-cover-your-tracks-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Out What Kinds of Breadcrumbs You&#8217;re Dropping &#8211; Visit the Cover Your Tracks Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Find Out What Kinds of Breadcrumbs You&#8217;re Dropping &#8211; Visit the Cover Your Tracks Website<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Electronic Frontier Foundation&#8217;s Cover Your Tracks Website<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2025\/trax2.png\" alt=\"EFF's Cover Your Tracks Website - A Cloudeight Site Pick\" width=\"249\" height=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When you visit a website, it&#8217;s like asking a store for something. Your computer, tablet, or phone, sends a &#8220;Hey, can I see this?&#8221; message. But here&#8217;s the thing &#8212; a lot of websites have sneaky code that makes your device automatically ask other, hidden stores for things too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">These hidden stores are most often ad companies and trackers, and every time your device asks them for something, it&#8217;s giving away little clues about you. Think of it like dropping breadcrumbs: your time zone, what kind of phone or computer you have, and what programs you&#8217;re using. Some of this stuff is necessary for the website to work right, like telling it what language to show you. But a lot of it is just being scooped up by these same ad and tracking companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A few breadcrumbs might not seem like a big deal. But when these companies gather up all those little clues, they can build a pretty good picture of who you are. They can guess things like what you like to buy, where you live, what you believe, and how much money you make. And as long as they can connect all those clues back to you, they can keep following you around the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">They do this by using things called &#8220;cookies&#8221; and &#8220;browser fingerprinting.&#8221; Cookies are like little tags they stick on your device to remember you, but cookies are usually easy to delete. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Browser fingerprinting is sneakier; it&#8217;s like figuring out who you are based on all the unique details of your device and how you use it. So basically, even if you delete your cookies and try to hide, they can still often figure out it&#8217;s you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Electronic Frontier Foundation&#8217;s Cover Your Tracks website gives you a chance to see how well your browser protects you from tracking and fingerprinting&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here&#8217;s what EFF has to say&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How does tracking technology follow your trail around the web, even if you\u2019ve taken protective measures? Cover Your Tracks shows you how trackers see your browser. It provides you with an overview of your browser\u2019s most unique and identifying characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Only anonymous data will be collected through this site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Want to learn more about tracking? <a href=\"https:\/\/coveryourtracks.eff.org\/learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read how it works with our guide.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Do you want to see what kinds of breadcrumbs you&#8217;re dropping as you interact with the websites you visit? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coveryourtracks.eff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Visit EFF&#8217;s Cover Your Tracks website right now.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/direct\/2025\/spring\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style818\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2025\/spring25a,.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Spring Cleanup Checkup Optimization\" width=\"488\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>SPRINGTIME IS HERE! <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #ff9900;\"><strong>IT&#8217;S TIME TO GET YOUR COMPUTER READY FOR SUMMER!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s springtime and it&#8217;s time to get your computer ready for summer. 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