Once we have sat down in front of our PC to start the daily work, either at home or at work, there are many programs that we open. But one of those that does not stop growing at the moment are Internet browsers. We talk about programs such as Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft‘s Edge , etc.
As you probably already know first-hand, these useful applications that help us move around the Internet, present us with everything we need to facilitate these tasks. In fact, developers like Google, Microsoft or Mozilla do not stop working on their projects to make them better and better. Several aspects come into play here, such as the stability, security and external appearance of the program.
And we must bear in mind that at the same time that the Internet is full of content of all kinds, at the same time we can find many dangers. We are talking about more or less serious dangers that can threaten the privacy and security of our data. That is why in the same way these applications have certain integrated functions that help us avoid all this.
Of course, at the same time we ourselves must configure certain parameters to increase all this. For example, in these times, many of these programs offer us several levels to personalize web crawling . This is something that we must, at a minimum, activate, at a higher or lower level depending on the needs of each one. The reasons for all this are various, as we will tell you below.
Increase our privacy on the Internet
One of the issues that most concerns most users at the moment is everything related to security and privacy on the Internet. And as you can imagine, all that monitoring that a good number of websites make of our online movements is a clear violation of said privacy.
Hence precisely that in these times, most current browsers allow us to configure, or directly avoid that tracking. So what we do is keep our anonymity on the web a little more.
Stop receiving personalized ads in browsers
One of the main objectives of these follow-ups that we are talking about, is to know, on the part of the companies, our tastes or needs. Thus, if it is the case, for example, that we visit some clothing or travel stores, from that moment on other websites and platforms we will not stop receiving advertisements on those same topics.
For those of you who have ever wondered the reason for that coincidence, well, by chance it has nothing, it is due to the tracking of the initially visited websites. Therefore, this is something that if we wish, we can avoid.
Avoid selling our browser data
But not only these follow-up movements are carried out by visited websites, for example clothing or travel . In fact, the usual thing is that there are online companies that are also dedicated to doing those crawls that we are talking about and then selling our browsing data. This includes information as private as our needs, tastes, vices, etc .; something we should avoid.
