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Quick recap of 2019 2019 was a year full of events. Here is a quick list of all the post from this year: Should you buy an antivirus software in 2020? You needed an antivirus software to survive surfing through the web back in the days. But how is it now? Click  here  to find out if you should really buy additional software or save it up for next Saturday night. Why you should quit using Google Search! Google can be bad for you if you don't know how to set things up properly. The best way to keep your privacy or do something good for the environment while searching can be done with  these  alternatives. How to gain your privacy back on the internet Your data should be only in your possession. Let's keep it that way by following a few simple rules. You can find them  here .  Dying Butterfly Or Published Nudes? Your Choice! Laptops have come a long way in the last few years. But are they perfect? No. They got smaller an...

With the growth of the internet came a threat to operating systems in form of viruses, malware, and spyware. Back in the days when computers didn't have an app store, popups appeared upon restart and when installing additional software on your computer. Updates, new feature announcements or ads. Everything was happening at ones, no one understood it but at least Internet Explorer and Microsoft Excel opened up. I wound say that these days where the dark days of the internet era. People with little to none knowledge about properly using a computer had bad experiences because of the unknowingly installed software running in the background sucking power and resources that could have been used for the programs the user actually had an interest in. Some people even had a hard time opening the task manager to force quit the application that caused this slow experience.  In recent years the quality of viruses has changed dramatically. Many organizations have been affected by data hos...

Let's begin with the obvious facts: Google Search is not prone for its privacy and user anonymity. In fact, the goal of most companies from the valley is about farming data about you. It's not that they want to scam or blackmail you. The goal is to create a personal image of the user to target ads and campaigns for companies that try to reach a specific audience. A vacuum manufacturer obviously tries to reach people that regularly use a vacuum and have an interest in having a nice and functioning one. So, the perfect audience for a vacuum ad could be housewives and professional cleaning companies for example. Like I mentioned in one of my previous posts about privacy, cookies are one of the main data access points for creating a user profile. With the help of the EU, users have gained the ability to check the cookie usages on websites and can choose to only save the necessary cookies to have a properly functioning website.  But there are alternatives in which data ca...