The Internet is the very place that you can get the whole world and the windows that the world can get you well. We can get enormous knowledge ranging from the universe, history, international news, stock market, local business to our friends. However, the strangers or malicious enemies can get your online data — visited websites, the content of your email and constant chat, and your location. Scary, huh? It is a two-way street, but that can be another way as long as you get a strong online privacy protection.

Protecting your online privacy is essential for enjoying a free Internet. Let’s see what you can do about your online privacy protection.

 

1. Use Strong Passwords For Money-related and Private Account

You can be hacked anytime. But you are not the big shot, why someone wants to hack my account? You’d better want nip in the bud unless you won’t cry over your privacy unveiled in the YouTube or your money account go back to zero.

People love to use birthday number, phone number, and the name abbreviation to create a password and the use the same password for almost all the accounts. By using different passwords, you can minimize the loss in case that your account with the same password gets hacked one by one.

How to set a good password? You can use a password generator, but you’d better remember or note down in your own ways that others cannot access.


2. Go Online with a safe browser

The browser is what you access most in daily life. You need to pay attention to the following aspects.

A. Keep Your Browser Up-to-date

New update means not only the new features but newly-fixed security problems. Meanwhile, applications and software do the same way.

B. Security Settings Improved

Mozilla Firefox is going to be illustrated for example. If you want to improve your Firefox browser security settings, press the hamburger menu in the top right corner and then go to Options.

 

->At General tab find Downloads section, and press Always ask me where to save files.

->At the Tracking section press the blue text with manage your Do Not Track settings and check Always apply do not track, with which advertising, commerce, and various other sites shouldn’t be able to track you across the web.

->At History section, choose Use Custom settings for history and check on Always use private browsing mode. With this every time you close your Firefox browser, it will clear browsing history, search results, cookies and download history.

Also, installing some practical software by privacy-focused manufacturers is a good second step, and it does not only do what you might think, like Neptune SystemCare Ultimate. It not only helps you to set strong passwords, clear browser history, cache and cookies and other online privacy protection like that but to completely remove potential risk data on the local disk and accessed file records. Download and have a few days trial.


3. Do not Browse Questionable Website

You can totally understand this. Do not browse or download anything from unknown or wired websites. But sometimes this can be hard. Malicious websites like phishing websites would violate your online privacy in various tricking ways.

Just stay cool when some luring pop-ups guide you to do something.


3. Do not Trust public and free Wi-Fi Networks

Free Wi-Fi network is one of the easiest ways to harm your online privacy protection. The free Wi-Fi owners can retrieve your visited history and intercept their content on the web pages. To prevent this, just be careful when connecting to free public wireless networks.


To Sum Up

The above four things is the least you can do for your online privacy protection. Many risks and dangers cannot be predicted, but we have to kill the chances that might threat our online privacy.