Every time we are more digitally connected, with our computers, tablets, phones, and any other smart electronic device. For this reason, when entering the internet universe, we may be leaving a digital footprint.
In this way, without knowing it or with consent, we have put privacy aside and offered our personal data to a lot of companies, who are eager for this information.
Many times we enter a pagea website where items are soldThen we log into our email and if it has the advertising segments, guess what. What appears in those spaces? Exact, products we saw in the previous application.
In the same way, for example, they can open Google and put your name in the search engine. You'll be able to see, to a large extent, what you've done on the internet, your social networks, comments, just to mention a few.
For this reason, the Mozilla developers, they created an application with a series of steps, called Detox Plan. That we It is used to verify how much digital footprint we have left in the virtual world. and also helps us to delete them or prevent us from further disclosing our information.
Minimize our digital footprint
As soon as we start the program, we start on day 0. This is how we understand the reason for this activity and the possible reasons for this accumulation of data generated by companies in the web world.
Then, continuing with the first day, We must delete the history and cookies from our favorite web browser.Next, we'll type our name into Google Search, or non-commercial search engines like DuckDuckGo, to see what comes up.
For example, in my case, they appeared data about my grandfather and myselfThe plan also invites us to upload an image of ourselves and verify where it is displayed. With all this, we will ask ourselves Can we delete it? Are we happy with that information?
Subsequently, the activity on the second day is determine how much information Google knows about us, in the section of My ActivityIn addition, we will delete activity logs and review privacy settings.
Equally important, staying in touch with our loved ones, friends, and acquaintances can be done in person or through social media and messaging. So, by the third day,It's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram's turn. and any other similar applications.
Next, On Facebook, you will reconfigure your ads, posts, and images. so that only friends can see them and they are not in the public domain.
Our activity in browsers
For the fourth day, the plan focuses on trackers, which in the end, manage to recognize us through the digital footprint we leave behind. And a huge number of companies have these programming gadgets. Obviously, with they get our data.
On the fifth day, it is the turn of our smartphonesBecause with these devices, we're revealing a significant amount of data. All of this is a result of connecting to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi networks, and even the apps we download on our phones.
Later, on the sixth day, follow a cleaning with the Clean Up. Of everything we are not using, we free up space and information that was being used by others.
Continuing the plan, on the seventh day, we are encouraged to discover what What advertising networks think about our tastes. To then define which products to suggest or sell to us for our consumption.
Finally, The Detox plan suggests some strategies to minimize our footprint and let's continue enjoying networks and applications in a good way.
Without putting our privacy and freedom at risk in an increasingly connected world. Do you dare to start this plan? If you have already done it before What was your experience?
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