Who is following you on the Internet?

in #blog6 years ago


The fact that the Facebook information scandal has brought this into the fore, is monitoring all our steps online, the world's most popular social media platform.

But this social media giant is not always secretly following your activities; More than a dozen companies are collecting various information about moving around in the digital world and are constantly monitored. -Well BBC online.

Generally, the websites that are used to go to more and the apps most commonly used are taking information about the user.

Many people are not aware of how they are being monitored and who have the ability to see these information. If you want to know who is following you on the Internet, then the answer is for most users - it can be anyone.

How our digital life is constantly monitored

There are many ways to track people's digital life trends. Snooping Arsenal is a tool that can monitor web browsing history intensively.

Generally, this weapon collects information about the human activities. Such as we are going to go to any kind of website or what kind of device we are using.

There are dozens of trackers on a website for different purposes. A tool might give the owner of the site an idea about the traffic volume or the number of users.

But most of the companies use these tools to know who their users, age is, where they are, what is read, what interests them, etc.

In 2010, a study by the Wall Street Journal found that there are an average of 64 trackers in the top 50 popular US websites.

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