Internet Explorer 9 automatically sends your entire browsing history to Microsoft if you have “Suggested sites” enabled. Your data is sent to Microsoft (essentially they’re tracking your movements on the Web). Microsoft saves your browsing history and correlates it and uses it to find sites similar to those you’ve visited. Microsoft then uses the data collected from you to serve up Internet Explorer 9’s “Suggested sites” when you click on the Suggested Sites button on your IE9 Favorites bar.<\/p>\n
Personally, we don’t get all worked up about some company following us around the Web. As we’ve written before, you can’t stop everyone from tracking you. If you think you can, try to stop your ISP from tracking you. You can’t. They’re required to keep server logs. So even those who are paranoid about being followed, and take every possible precaution, are being tracked at least by their ISP.<\/p>\n
Then again, how many of you actually use “Suggested Sites” in Internet Explorer? Ah! No one raised their hands. Yes, EB? You say you never even noticed the Suggested Sites button? Don’t feel bad – I’m sure many others haven’t noticed it either. <\/p>\n
If you don’t use “Suggested Sites” then why not turn it off. That will be at least one less company following you around the Web. If you’re paranoid about people following you around the Web – this won’t stop all of them but it will stop Internet Explorer 9 from gathering information about your travels on the Web. So here’s how to turn off Suggested Sites in Internet Explorer 9:<\/p>\n
Clear the gear-icon to open the tools menu
\nClick on “Internet options”
\nClick the “Advanced” tab in the Internet options dialog
\nUncheck “Enable Suggested Sites”
\nClick Apply and then OK<\/p>\n
If you don’t use Suggested Sites, you may as well turn it off. It’s not the tracking that bothers us, it’s all that information flow slowing things down that does :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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