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How to know which companies market with your data

It's no secret that big technology companies collect their users' data to offer personalized ads. Google, Microsoft or Facebook are some of them. Even in recent times, their voice assistants have been accused of listening to users' conversations to, based on their conversations, bombard them on their devices with related advertising.

Since there are many companies that are dedicated to collecting data through cookies, small files that have information about our preferences, we have found a tool that can help you avoid this. This is a website that will tell you what Companies market with your data. It will help us know precisely the degree of information that these companies have.

YourOnlineChoices.eu, the website that tells you which companies trade with your data

YourOnlineChoices.eu It is defined as “a guide to online behavioral advertising.” Basically, what it does is that it analyzes our browser's cookie file, displaying a list of companies and pages that store our information. and then show us personalized ads. This website has an icon that gives us the option of knowing the business model of each of the web domains.

YourOnlineChoices.eu differentiates between these options:

Icon in gray color: This company has not set a cookie, although it may offer you advertisements tailored to your interests in the future.
Icon in green color- This company offers ads that fit your interests.
Icon in red color: This company does not offer ads that match your interests.
Icon in orange color: This company is experiencing technical issues and we are unable to obtain your status.

By clicking on each of these associated companies we will be able to know the URL address of the original page, as well as a short description that defines the activity of the company in question. However, the best feature of YourOnlineChoices.eu is the possibility of being able to cancel each of these services. In this way, we will have the option to delete the tracking identifiers of all those websites that we have previously accessed.

To unsubscribe we will have two options. On the one hand, it is necessary to click on each of the web pages that appear in the list. In this way, the page will immediately give us the option to unsubscribe from the service. Also we may choose to delete all information stored in cookies. To do this, you must click on the Unsubscribe all companies option.

How to delete all cookies from your browser at once

There is a faster way to delete all the cookies saved in our browser. You will have to go to the browser settings. Once inside, You will have to enter the Navigation, Privacy, Storage or Data, Cookies section. Finally, you need to click on the Clear data option to delete all browsing data saved in the browser.

Please note that… to delete cookies In Google Chrome you need to go to Settings, Google and you, Privacy and security, Clear browsing data. For its part, in Safari you will have to delete cookies in Safari, Preferences, Privacy, Manage website data, Delete all.