Online Tracking

Online Tracking, or Web Tracking, is the act of a website collecting data on website visitors. Many websites do this to help improve the user experience with that website. Even though this may sound like a good idea to improve user experience, the website obtains a lot of personal information. Many websites have more information about you than you think!

How websites obtain your information
Many websites use:
 * Cookies
 * Server Logs
 * Bugs/Web Beacons

Ways to prevent online tracking
Simple changes:
 * Install an Adblock
 * Ghostery is a great Adblock to install
 * Change cookie settings
 * Turn off Referers
 * Use HTTPS instead of HTTP