Step 5: Other Solutions

Browser History
Advise participants that in order to prevent someone from reading their browser history, they can change their browser settings to not store browsing history, clear existing browsing history, or browse in an “incognito” tab or mode where history is not recorded.

Stored Information
Change your browser settings to never allow your browser to store sensitive information like passwords, addresses or credit card details. In Chrome, for instance, this setting is located under Settings -> Show advanced settings -> Passwords and Forms.

Do Not Track
Change your browser settings to enable “Do Not Track”, in order to notify websites you don’t want to be tracked for (strictly) advertising purposes. It’s modeled after “do not call” lists for telemarketers in some countries.

Clear Cookies
Change your browser settings to clear cookies after you end a session, block cookies from specific websites or even disallow cookies completely. If you find that certain websites require your browser to accept a cookie in order to log into an account, you can give those sites permission just for your current session. In Firefox, for instance, this Exception list is located under Tools -> Options -> Privacy (tab) -> Exceptions.

GPS and Location Services
Turn off GPS capability on your mobile device, or restrict applications’ access to this data.

Disable Certain Data Collection
Privacy Badger, developed by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is a browser plug-in that can be used to block user data from being sent to a number of known, third-party servers.

Disable JavaScript
Configuring browser settings to disable JavaScript from running on all sites by default can be accomplished through the use of one of several browser plug-ins. JavaScript is a widely used protocol for generating web-based content, that can also gather potentially identifying information from users.
•The NoScript extension for Firefox
•The ScriptSafe extension in Chrome

Update Browsers
Keeping browser software up to date prevents malicious code embedded in websites from collecting data. See Safer Software Updating here on LevelUp for supporting training material on this topic.