You can prevent iOS and Android from tracking you, but companies don’t make it easy. The feature is buried inside your device’s privacy settings and, by default, records your daily routine.

Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature offers Apple users a simple choice, to allow apps to track their activity or not. If you choose to opt out, Apple will prevent the app from accessing ...

You can prevent iOS and Android from tracking you, but this process isn’t intuitive; the feature is buried inside privacy settings, and its default is to record your daily routine.

Using email aliases for online shopping and subscriptions can protect your privacy by preventing companies from linking your activity across websites.

Now rather than you seeing an alert that an app wants to track you, and having to act on it, the app will just be told that it doesn’t have permission to track you. Should I stop apps tracking me?

How to keep companies from tracking your email activity The quickest and easiest way to put the brakes on most email tracking practices is to prevent your email app from loading images automatically.

Q. I was shocked to hear you say on your national radio show that my phone is tracking wherever I go. What is the setting called?

Don't forget that stores are also tracking you online. Learn how advertisers track where you go online and how to put a stop to it. They're also tracking where you browse on your smartphone or tablet.

The latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer support a standard designed to stop the kind of tracking that spawns targeted ads. Whether it’ll work, though, is unclear.