DuckDuckGo. DoNotTrackMe | Protects Your Privacy By Blocking Online Tracking. Abine. Facebook Search Engine Indexing. Claim: A recent change now allows all of your private Facebook information to be automatically indexed by search engines. Example:[Collected via e-mail, December 2009] If you don't know, as of today, Facebook will automatically index all your info on Google, which allows everyone to view it. To change this option, go to Privacy then UN-CLICK the box that says 'Allow indexing'. Facebook kept this one quiet. Copy and paste onto your status for all your friends ASAP ... keep your private info off of Google! Origins: This item appears to be based on a bit of confusion over some recent changes to Facebook's privacy settings, which by default now make public some information which was previously private: Users who had not previously selected their own privacy settings, and who now go with Facebook's default settings, will be publishing their status messages and wall posts to everyone on the Internet.
Public Search Results Important Privacy Announcement Worried about search engines? Facebook Disconnect. How Facebook Tracks Your Web Activity. DoNotTrackMe. How To Block Facebook And Other Social Networks From Tracking You Online. Whenever you visit a site with a Like, Tweet or +1 button, you’re actually sharing data with Facebook, Twitter or Google. And that’s not all. There are hundreds of advertising and data collection companies that know quite a bit about your browsing habits. Luckily, no matter what your browser of choice might happen to be, there is a way to stop social networks and advertising companies from tracking your every move on the Web. Sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google store cookies on your computer, making it possible for them to keep tabs on you on other websites, as long as there’s a button that can send information to that social network, like a Follow, Like or Tweet button, you know that your data is being shared with these sites.
One of the few reasons you might want to share your data with these companies is to receive suggestions on which tweeps to follow, which pages to like, and so on. Do Not Track Plus Disconnect Ghostery Mobile Browsing Image Credit: Franco Bouly. Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them.