Online Privacy

Lessons

1. 01

   What One Page Load Gives Away

   See how one company’s code inside many sites lines up your visits, how the advert auction in a page load works, and what really explains the eerie advert.

   10 steps
2. 02

   Cookies and Fingerprints

   Learn what a cookie really holds, how giving each site its own storage breaks the tracker’s card, and how a fingerprint recognises a browser without one.

   10 steps·Builds on What One Page Load Gives Away
3. 03

   Reading the Cookie Banner

   Learn what UK law makes the cookie banner ask, what pressing Reject all stops, and what it was never meant to reach.

   9 steps·Builds on Cookies and Fingerprints
4. 04

   Browsers and Blockers

   Use your browser’s built-in protection first, add a blocker for a gap you can name, and know the two routes no browser tool can see.

   10 steps·Builds on Reading the Cookie Banner
5. 05

   What Your Network Can See

   Work out who can read which site you’re visiting at each stop on your connection, and what encrypted DNS and a VPN actually change.

   9 steps·Builds on Browsers and Blockers
6. 06

   What Your Apps Can Reach

   Give an app only the access its job needs, treat when and how closely as separate choices, and use the phone’s own tracking controls.

   9 steps·Builds on What One Page Load Gives Away
7. 07

   Who Knows Where You Are

   See the routes your location travels by, which ones the phone’s location switch closes, and what your photos and the people you share with can reveal.

   9 steps·Builds on What Your Apps Can Reach
8. 08

   Your Email Address Is the Key

   See how shops match their customer lists to your accounts, how a different address for each shop breaks the match, and what images in emails report back.

   11 steps·Builds on Cookies and Fingerprints, Browsers and Blockers
9. 09

   Getting Off the Lists

   Use your UK data rights in the right order: find out what a company holds, tell it to stop marketing to you, ask for erasure where it fits and leave the lists you can leave once.

   11 steps·Builds on Your Email Address Is the Key
10. 10

    Making the Adverts Stop

    Trace one person’s unwanted adverts back to the routes they travel by, and match each route to the change that actually reaches it.

    11 steps·Builds on Reading the Cookie Banner, Browsers and Blockers, What Your Network Can See, What Your Apps Can Reach, Your Email Address Is the Key, Getting Off the Lists