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Privacy Guides

In-depth guides, tutorials, and explainers to help you take control of your digital privacy.

Smart TVs use ACR to log everything you watch. Here's how to disable it on Samsung, LG, Sony, Roku and Vizio, and what it won't fix.

Your phone probably isn't recording your conversations for ads. The reality is more unsettling. Here's what's actually happening.

Google knows more about you than your closest friends. Here's how to shut it down across Search, Chrome, Android, YouTube, and Maps.

Your iPhone has dozens of privacy settings buried in menus you've never opened. Here's every one worth changing.

Android phones are Google's biggest data pipeline. Here's how to tighten every setting without breaking anything.

Weird charges, slow phone, locked out of accounts? Here's how to tell if you've actually been hacked and what to do about it.

VPN companies love to oversell. Here's what a VPN actually does, what it doesn't do, and whether you actually need one.

Data brokers, old accounts, and Google results. Here's how to actually remove yourself from the internet (or get close).