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avoidthehack! promotes online privacy and security awareness.

We believe you have the right to control and protect your online information.

Privacy Browsers

Privacy browsers both respect your privacy and help prevent websites, web services, and web apps from tracking your browsing activity across the internet.

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Password Management

Your passwords hold the keys to your digital kingdom. Learn about password best practices and read up on password managers.

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Private Search Engines

Private search engines respect your privacy. They don't track you, create shadow profiles of you, or try to connect who you are to what you're searching.

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Tracker Blocking

Trackers follow you around the internet. Learn about different tracking techniques and the best way to defend against them.

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Review: How is the DuckDuckGo Mobile Browser?

/ data privacy, web browsers, review

DuckDuckGo is a company that has been strongly associated with privacy since it's been around.

Their search engine doesn't track you. They have browser extensions (for the likes of Firefox and Google Chrome) for increased privacy.

One of DuckDuckGo's most recent privacy offerings is its mobile b...

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Is NFC/RFID Skimming a Real Threat... Yet?

/ data privacy, real world technology, credit cards

With the increasing popularity of NFC and RFID technology being used in smartphones as a method for delivering "wallet" payments and more credit cards use RFID technology, security issues arise.

How secure are they? Can't they be skimmed? What's th...

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How Secure is Your Copied Text (Clipboard)?

/ data privacy, security exploits

CTRL C and then CTRL V.

(For the Mac users: COMMAND+C and then COMMAND+V.)

Familiar? That's how you copy and paste on a keyboard.

For your touchscreen device it's as simple as highlighting the text with your finger and tapping "Copy."

The copy and paste function across desktops and ot...

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Safety Guide: Helpful Security Tips for Working Remotely

/ data privacy, safety guide

Even before the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a lot of people worked from home at least some of the time.

One study conducted by the International Workplace Group (IWG) found that approximately 70% of the global workforce worked from home at least once a week.

The IWG also f...

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The Account Passwords You Should Always Remember (and Why)

/ data privacy, passwords

Memory capacity for everyone is limited. Remembering stuff seems to get harder and harder every day, doesn't it?

But you commit some things to memory right?

I recommend committing a couple passwords to memory too. Not many, really. Only a coupl...

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How to Force HTTPS on Your Website (via .htaccess)

/ how-to guide, online website

Why should I use HTTPS?

Put simply, regular old HTTP doesn't cut it anymore.

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