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Protecting your privacy online

Protecting your privacy online as well as on your screen relies on several complementary habits. Our guides explain how to protect your screen from prying eyes while travelling, disable location tracking on Windows 11 and erase your browsing traces with Privazer. We also present more technical solutions such as DNS4EU for a DNS that respects your data and AdNauseam for scrambling ad profiling. Find our other privacy guides on the Assistouest blog.

> WEB

AdNauseam: the extension that clicks ads to obfuscate advertising data

Online advertising has moved far beyond flashing banners. Advertising systems now build profiles from browsing behaviour and try to predict interests before we articulate them. Traditional blockers can hide the ad, but they do not always challenge the data collection behind it. AdNauseam takes a different approach: it blocks visible ads while automatically clicking them … <a href="https://assistouest.fr/en/blog/web-en/adnauseam-the-extension-that-clicks-ads-to-obfuscate-advertising-data/">Continued</a>

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> CYBERSECURITY

DNS4EU: the European DNS designed for cybersecurity and privacy

Every day, billions of DNS requests pass through the hands of a small number of mostly American companies. Google DNS, Cloudflare and OpenDNS have become fast, free standards, often without users realising it. That dominance raises an essential question: where does our browsing data go, and who can see it? In response to this digital-sovereignty … <a href="https://assistouest.fr/en/blog/cybersecurity/dns4eu-the-european-dns-designed-for-cybersecurity-and-privacy/">Continued</a>

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