Questions tagged [privacy]
Questions about protecting your privacy on your computer. Questions about privacy in web applications belong in WebApps.
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VPNs don't fully hide your identity?
Suppose I want to identify the perpetrator (call them X) of some suspicious/illegal activity online, with the help of the authorities.
X uses some legit, short-memoried VPN. But X uses some standard ...
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Is it safe to give my IP address to a website? [closed]
I have been having problems to visit Quora app. So I informed them, although much later, and they said they needed some information. I obliged. Then they asked my IP address. Now I am in hesitation as ...
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How to delete my email account from "activity history" in "Privacy"?
How to delete my email account from "activity history" in "Privacy"?
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Do passkey's support privacy as well as security or just security? [closed]
Do passkey's support privacy as well as security or just security?
Can passkeys be used to identify individuals across websites against the user's wishes and subsequent configuration?
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Effectively hiding IP
Context: Consider the scenario in which you want to hide your ISP IP address from the application service you are accessing/using.
Possible solutions: In general, three scenarios for trying to ...
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Can Microsoft Edge send browsing history to Microsoft for targeted advertising?
In Google Chrome, if you synchronize your browsing history between multiple devices, then Google can use your browsing history for advertising purposes. Unless you disable this in your Google Account ...
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What can the ISP see when using website-based-VPN and not software-based-VPN? [duplicate]
Can ISP see which page I am visiting when using website-based-VPN like https://proxyium.com/ ?
Can they see the title of the page, the meta-data?
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Are cookies in third-party ads now blocked in Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Chrome?
The Storage Access API is relevant to user agents that, by default, block access to third-party cookies to improve privacy (for example, to prevent tracking). There are legitimate uses for third-party ...
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When saving as a PDF document, Excel uses your name as the author for the PDF doc - How to stop it doing this?
I create PDF invoices for my clients from a template I created in Excel. Rather annoyingly, Excel is auto-populating my name in the 'Author' field for the PDF document. The only way to remove it is to ...
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Privacy implications of using OAuth 2 in local Microsoft apps
When setting up OAuth authentication in Microsoft applications, I'm prompted with scary dialogs like the ones below. This example is using Outlook 2016 to configure a GMail account[1], but I've seen ...
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How to remove your name from the title bar of Microsoft Office apps?
Microsoft Office apps display your Microsoft Account name in the title bar:
How to hide/edit/remove it?
People were asking this since showing the name was introduced into Office, and have even come ...
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How do I clear the "recent files" in VLC on Windows 11?
I have VLC pinned to the task-bar. Right clicking on it shows a list of recent files.
I have cleaned out the Windows "Quick Access" history and also cleared the "Recent Media" in ...
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How to use HP M209dw printer on LAN only (disconnect/block it from “phoning home” on the Internet)?
I don't want my HP M209dw printer to chat with its corporate mothership any more. I just want to use the hardware I bought and have it work for me on my local network without complaining about the ...
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Disable Windows 11 data collection across an entire tenant for O365 Enterprise?
I'm at my wit's end with how much Windows 11 is sending back in terms of information used for "personalized ads". The security policy I need to adhere to is very IP protective and basically ...
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Delete selected sites cookies on Firefox automatically
I set the cookie preferences on each site via Super Agent or manually, however I want to always remove the ones that now force us to accept some pages if we don't pay. So what I want is to delete the ...
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