Australian online news publications are doing a good job of
tracking you, but that is not good enough where better results can be obtained
when you download their app.
We’ve obtained a test sample for one month worth of light
browsing to the main Australian news websites that being The ABC, SBS and
Rupert Murdoch’s The Age and news.com.au websites from a smartphone.
Nearly 20,000 ads
have been blocked, with over 3,000 trackers stopped in their tracks and over 1 Gigabyte of data saved.
See edit results (in order to mitigate device fingerprinting) in
screen capture below:
While some people may argue that mobile data is cheap, where
that may only be a personal point of view, that is not the point of the article.
The point is that the corporations would have collected /
you would have given away, 1 GB of data just from (light) browsing of their ‘news’
services, keeping in mind that the equivalent apps would have collected even
more data.
Realistically this is just NOT good for your privacy or
online security.
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) ad blockers, together with end
to end encryption (say open source, i.e. NOT Messenger, Whatsapp etc) communications app are a
must on your smartphone if you are truly serious about your online privacy and security.
Also modifying your internet use of the standard social
media platforms from smartphone to PC web based (also via VPN) is a must.
Unfortunately for their privacy, MANY Australians still
choose their smartphone to communicate on the popular social media platforms,
where it’s a case that you deserve to lose your privacy/security.
One can easily have over 1 GB of data 'stolen' (monetary value depends on your mobile plan) by the corporation just from browsing their sites.
NOT very good if you're on a low data plan is it now?
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