Find a place to mention ways users signal they dont want unwanted profiling

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Find a place to mention ways users signal they dont want unwanted profiling #63

Closed pes10k closed 2 years ago

pes10k commented 3 years ago

Use a browser that offers tracking protection
Use extensions or add-ons to block tracking
Choose no, deny or disallow when offered a choice about tracking cookies (or tracking in general)
Use their browser's private or incognito browsing mode
Use a clean browser profile, container, partition or other mode to isolate web site visits
Explicitly clear the site's cookies or storage
Use a VPN to hide their location

pes10k commented 3 years ago

Additional related text that might be good to re-integrate elsewhere in the document

unexpected profiling, were a site able to learn them such as:

* Whether a person is using a VPN to hide their location
* Whether a person is using a clean browser profile, container, partition or
  other mode to isolate web site visits
* Demographic information, even in the presence of other privacy protections
  (e.g., k-anonymity, differential privacy)

dmarti commented 2 years ago

Some of these signals might be initiated by a system administrator, network owner, or middlebox device without the knowledge of the user.

content filters in routers
centrally managed browser settings

See #2