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I use Little Snitch on my MacBook Pro and love it. I’m a privacy nut and don’t relish the idea of behemoth corporations making money off me by exploiting my com
by ar9av 4y ago
I use Little Snitch on my MacBook Pro and love it. I’m a privacy nut and don’t relish the idea of behemoth corporations making money off me by exploiting my computer. It can be a pain to check every connection your browser tries to make but it’s worth it. Yesterday I shopped on three sites. None of them were Amazon. In that 24 hour period Amazon attempted to connect 259 times.- not their web services. To a lesser degree Google and then the social media sites. Facebook was the worst.
I use an IP identification site to look up each IP that attempts to connect on Firefox and see what company it belongs to. After awhile you learn which sites the first 2-5 numbers belong to. It is one of the finest security programs on the market and well worth the money.
Last week I did some holiday shopping for my granddaughter on the GAP site on my iPad and within 48 hours ads for GAP and all of their affiliated sites started showing up in my Twitter feed. I only use Firefox in private browsing mode now. Hope this helps!
- quesera 4y ago> within 48 hours ads for GAP and all of their affiliated sites started showing up in my Twitter feed That's called "retargeting". The advertising network tracks your web activity across multiple sites, and advertisers pay extra to target you because you've visited their site previously. Ad blockers break the code that tracks you around the web and the display of ads, whether new or retargeted. There are some decent options for iOS.