The Ultimate Anti-Tracking Guide for 2023 by Ghostery
Ghostery wrote a tracking primer worth the read; this is the condensed version. Most useful for the line it draws between tracking that makes a site work and tracking that follows you off it.
Topic
Tracking
A collection of 28 issues
Firefox Privacy and Security Guide (2026)
Firefox 152 reorganised the privacy panel, and three recommendations in the old version of this guide are now wrong. One of them, disabling automatic updates, made readers less safe.
Android Auto vs. Android Automotive OS: A Comprehensive Comparison
Two products, one brand name, and a distinction most drivers never notice until they are shopping for a car. Working out which one is in the dashboard tells you whose software is running and what it is wired into.
Car Privacy: The Unseen Threat on Wheels
The car in your driveway runs more cameras, microphones, and sensors than anything else you own, with a privacy policy to match. Mozilla called cars the worst product category it has ever reviewed.
Chrome's Advanced Privacy Features: Introducing the Privacy Sandbox
The third-party cookie is being retired by the company that profits most from it. A short look at what Chrome proposes to put in its place, presented in Google's own framing.
Digital Identity: Are you in control?
Building a picture of someone used to take an implant and a case officer. Now it takes a purchase order — and most of what gets bought was assembled from things people posted about themselves.
Digital Footprint
A record of the sites you opened, the mail you sent, and the devices in your pocket is enough to reconstruct where you were and what you cared about. Most of it accumulates with no deliberate act on your part.
App Privacy Report: What Your Apple Device Is Actually Doing
Switch it on, wait a day, then look for the entries that make no sense: the calculator with location access, the domain your phone talks to all night. Useful for spotting outliers, poor at everything else.
Our vehicles are spying on us.
A modern car is a phone on wheels that you cannot factory reset. It records where it went, and it remembers the phones plugged into it — including the rental you dropped off last week.
Disable Location Services (Android)
Precision is what makes location data worth selling. You will never be invisible to the network itself, but you can stop the apps on your phone from quietly building a record of where you sleep.