Kim Komando
Special to USA TODAY
Big Tech companies are woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. We message each other on our Apple and Android smartphones, share photos on Facebook, shop on Amazon, work on our Microsoft and Apple computers, and Google things all day long.
If you’re super privacy-conscious, maybe you’re ready to nuke your private info floating around the web – or as much as you can, at least. Tap or click to erase yourself from the internet.
Let’s look at a company I bet you interact with most days, Google. Here are three settings you need to check:
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The companies behind privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo and Norwegian browser Vivaldi have joined the Brave browser chiefs in opposing Google s new experimental ad-targeting technology known as Federated Learning of Cohorts.
In statements released on Wednesday US time, the two companies slammed the move by Google, with Vivaldi chief executive Jon von Tetzchner
calling the new data harvesting venture nasty .
DuckDuckGo
said FLoC was bad for privacy. Google has created a new tracking method called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users, the company said.
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