Protect your privacy
Ever get the feeling that someone is gathering a digital dossier on you when you shop online?
Here are the best recommendations for protecting yourself:
Don't register your software.
You're not legally obliged to. you'er not voiding your warranty by ignoring it.
The onlt only thing you ensure by regestering is that your name, phone number and other infomation will be given to telemarketers.
Pry befor you buy.
Avoid companies that want information about your merital status, sex, race and hobbies-
all to purchase book or CD.
Beware of "You may already be a winner."
Plenty of online users are hip to web sites informatino-gathering practices. so whenever they'er
asking for name or other personal information, they lie.
Web sites found another way to pry: the contest. after all, who is going to lie when the internet
equivalent of Ed McMahon may come calling?
Never bite on spam.
Everyone gets unsolicited e-mail sale pitches, known as spam. You may tempted to reply,
demanding the your name be remove from the mailing list.
But when you reply, demanding that your name be remove from the mailing list. But when you reply, you provide a valuable service to the spammer: You confirm that yours is a valid e-mail address. that is tantamount to an invitation for - you guessed it - more unsolicited e-mail
Toss your cookies.
Cookies ias a term for the unique serial number a web site assigns to you computer on your first visit to an internet address, so they can pepper you with more effective come-ons.
Periodically empty your cookies jar by looking for files called cookies, cookies.txt or MagicCookies and delet them...