A thread for Internet users who want to protect their online privacy and personal activity data.
How to protect yourself from snooping by govt or any agencies or individuals.
(1). Avoid using Chrome. Because google is known for the biggest user data collector in Internet, Google using all of it's tools to collect personal data of users as much as possible. Then google use those data to make profile of user and people around them google make timeline of your every activity and use them to show you specifically target ads to you. You can use other browser which provide better privacy protection then chrome. Some of them is Mozila, Brave, duckduckgo, Tor
(2). If you can't leave chrome you must make some changes on your chrome settings, So you can have some control on your data.
a). Do not leave your gmail account logged in on chrome always this way google will be tracking you every where.
b). Keep Google smart data sync off (see screenshot).
c). Keep all the google services off as per screenshot I have attached.
d). Keep off continue running of chrome app on background when google chrome is closed. (see screen shot).
e). Change your chrome privacy and security to the screenshot i have attached.
f). Clear your browsing data more frequently or you can clear every time before closing browser some browser support automatic data clear on closing activate this option if available.
g). Click on the site setting>cookies and site data and make changes like i have suggested. (screenshot).
See more screen shots i have attached below for site settings.
one more screenshot