The Invisible Way Websites Track Your Every Move
The Invisible Way Websites Track Your Every Move
Every day when you browse the internet, you share identifiable information about your device and browser that companies use to target you with advertising and track your activity across the web. This is called browser fingerprinting, in this video interview with Ruihildt from the Mullvad Browser team, we uncover how this tracking technology works and how you can fight back!
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: YouTube (and other corporate websites) has been adding tracking parameters unique to your account to your shared links so it can be traced back to you. Meaning, they will know whom you share it with, who interacts with it, which accounts on other websites use the same parameter. If you share a Youtube video here with a link created with your unique identifiers, Google will tie your Telegram account with your Google accounts.
The same is true for other platforms: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X, ALL OF THEM. A tracking link looks like this:
https://website.com/contentID?si=123456
You can guess that "?si=123456" stands for your identifier and will tie every user who clicks on that link to you.
Facebook, for example, uses "fbid=" instead of "si=". Tiktok uses "utm_source=". But they all work the same - they track all users who click on it, and tie them back to you.
So to improve the #Privacy for you and others, the whole identifier (?si=123456; ?fbid=123456; etc.) should be removed from the link you want to share.
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