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avoidthehack! promotes online privacy and security awareness.

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

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.

Password Management

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

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.

Tracker Blocking

Trackers follow you around the internet, gathering all kinds of data about your activities. Learn about different tracking techniques and the best way to defend against them.

DNS Providers

Trusted DNS Providers provide DNS-over-HTTPS and other DNS security features while respecting user privacy. Learn about DNS resolvers and how selecting a privacy-centric resolver benefits your privacy.

Operating Systems

The operating system is the command center of your entire device. Learn how popular operating systems are known to be not-so-privacy friendly and what you can do about this.

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Big Tech Monopolies: List of Amazon Products and Services

10th Mar 2021 / data privacy, big tech, big data

Amazon owns a ton of products and services without "Amazon" or "an Amazon company" in the name.

These products and services are part of Amazon's network to - you guessed it - profit, one way or another.

These products and services are also massive data collection and mass surveillance tools. Do...

Big Tech Monopolies: List of Google's Products and Subsidiaries

15th Jan 2021 / data privacy, big tech, big data

Google owns a lot of products that don't include "Google" in the name.

But are you aware of the notable products/services they own that aren't "Google" this or "Google" that?

More importantly, do you use or regularly interact with any of these products or services?

This is a post in our series...

Big Tech Monopolies: List of Facebook's Mergers

5th Jan 2021 / data privacy, big tech, big data

As you may or may not know, Facebook is notorious for buying out competition.

This is especially true when that competition is something they can't beat outright or poses a serious threat to "their market." Instead of competing, they whip out their wallet and fork over cash.

Not to mention, y...