Secure Your Privacy Online
There are people out there right now scouring the Internet looking for any way they can grab more information about you. This includes everything from the sites you visit to your private financial information. Why reveal any of it? Support.com can help you keep your information to yourself.
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What Is Computer Privacy?
Before discussing the intricacies of online privacy, let’s cover exactly what we mean by the term. Some rules are set by companies, such as Facebook privacy or Google privacy measures. Others you can control yourself, however.
Web privacy can fall under several umbrellas, including your online surfing habits, your passwords and login information and your computer files. Usually, tracking any of this happens through the use of “cookies.” Cookies are small bits of data that are placed on your computer by Web sites. They can help track how often you return, other sites you’ve visited and more.
This raises some important Internet privacy issues, as the information may be something you want to keep to yourself. After all, is it really anyone else’s business where you go online? To prevent others from knowing this, cookies can be removed. When we’re optimizing your computer for better speed, just ask us, how to delete cookies and we’ll clean them out and turn cookies off for you.
Be aware that while cookies may allow others to snoop on your online habits (benignly or not), they can also help sites recognize you and load your preferences. For example, when checking your online email, local news, weather, etc., it’s nice to simply click the pages and instantly have the information displayed. This is because of cookies. Otherwise, you would need to retype all of your preferences, like your zip code, every time you visit.
Whether it’s better to opt-out from tracking cookies on the Internet, or you’d rather enable cookies for certain sites but not others, Support.com can help.
Is It Alright to Delete Cookies on Your Computer?
This is a question we wanted to answer upfront, as it’s one we’re often asked here at Support.com. The answer is “yes,” although it may take more time to enter your personal preferences on some sites.
To avoid constantly re-entering information, you can have the best of both worlds: Deleting some cookies while retaining others for sites you consider to be safe (e.g., your online email, banking site, etc.).
Ask one of our Personal Technology Experts® to do just that. We can help delete the browsing history, too. It also tells which sites you’ve visited. In addition, we’ll help with other privacy issues and more, like:
- Deleting Internet cookies
- Securing your computer privacy
- Desktop and laptop driver issues and updates
- Printer driver issues and updates
- Device connections
- Wireless security issues
- File recovery
- Delete history file
- Help with System Restore
- System start-up problems
- Issues with Web cookies
- System memory problems
- Advanced laptop and desktop repair
- Computer security issues
- Malware removal (e.g., computer virus, spyware, adware)
- Fixing slow computers
- Optimizing laptops, desktops and netbooks
- Software and app installation
- Operating system issues (e.g., Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP)
Do You Want to Delete Internet History, Too?
The last few sites you’ve visited are viewable in the browser where you type the URL (e.g., “www.support.com”). Consider this when others are using your computer, or you’re using a public computer, such as one at a library. Definitely rethink visiting your banking or credit card sites when strangers have access to the computer at public locations. Even reading your online messages can prompt concerns about email privacy issues.
At Support.com, we provide information like what we’ve mentioned here because we want your computer experiences to be productive, fun and problem-free. To help accomplish this, we know we need to be on top of every issue you might encounter. We stand ready to help you opt-out from tracking cookies on the Internet should you choose to do that. We can also delete search history for you, delete Flash cookies and more.
This is why we require all of our Personal Technology Experts® to first earn their title by passing a series of incredibly rigorous tests. By doing this, Support.com assures you that they know how to get the job done right the first time. So if you’re concerned about your privacy online, contact us.
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