{"id":380,"date":"2016-10-19T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2022-10-11T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:27:38","slug":"preventing-others-from-seeing-what-websites-youre-currently-logged-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glasswire.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/preventing-others-from-seeing-what-websites-youre-currently-logged-into\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing others from seeing what websites you&#8217;re currently logged into"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-381 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spying_logged_on_websites-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"spying_logged_on_websites\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glasswire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spying_logged_on_websites-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.glasswire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spying_logged_on_websites.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that any website you visit could be making a log of all the other websites you&#8217;re currently logged into?<\/p>\n<p>Some websites do this without your permission to build a profile about you to show you targeted ads.&nbsp; Unfortunately, this data could also be used against you to attempt to hack you by sending you targeted exploits, clickjacking links, or phishing sites.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this problem doesn\u2019t apply to you?&nbsp; You\u2019re probably wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/robinlinus.github.io\/socialmedia-leak\/\">Github page by Robin Linus<\/a> that will show you what sites you\u2019re currently logged into.<\/p>\n<p>How was Robin able to create this page?&nbsp; As Robin explains <a href=\"https:\/\/robinlinus.github.io\/socialmedia-leak\/\">on the page<\/a>, websites can track what other sites you are logged on to by tracking whether certain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Favicon\">favicons<\/a> or images load or not.<\/p>\n<p>How can you avoid being tracked like this?<\/p>\n<p>Robin suggests a plug-In like Privacy Badger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/privacybadger\">https:\/\/www.eff.org\/privacybadger<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> (please <a href=\"https:\/\/supporters.eff.org\/donate\/button\">support them if you can<\/a>, we do).<\/p>\n<p>Another technique that can help is called \u201cbrowser isolation\u201d.&nbsp; One simple way to do this is to dedicate one browser for your major social media or login accounts, then use a separate more secured browser for web surfing.&nbsp; You can also use a \u201cPrivate Window\u201d or \u201cIncognito mode\u201d window in your browser separate from your logged in browser to surf the web.<\/p>\n<p>The truly paranoid GlassWIre user could set up a virtual machine with a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/2016\/03\/15\/are-you-using-a-vpn\/\">VPN<\/a>, then only surf the web from that virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>Once you feel you\u2019re protected <a href=\"https:\/\/robinlinus.github.io\/socialmedia-leak\/\">visit Robin\u2019s page again<\/a> to confirm your logged on sites are safe again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that any website you visit could be making a log of all the other websites you&#8217;re currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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