How To's - Block Cookies, Turn Off Text Previews and More!

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2:26 Social media channels at the top of the page, click on that YouTube and click subscribe to the YouTube channel, so you get notified of any new videos we have out there, and get notified of what's coming up on the radio show each week. So today it's going to be a short one. We're going to go over some different settings. I'm going to share my screen, all right. So the first one is we are going to go over the cookies. So you know, you get on the websites and it comes up and it says about managing cookies or accepting all of them, or just accept, or there's a reject button, or accept only necessary, a ton of different ways, and that's where you can actually go in.

3:17 You can manage. You can look at the different cookies that the company is tracking, you can read about them, make a decision. But if you want to do it for all third party cookies, these three dots here in the top right of your screen is is what you're going to do. So you click on that, you come down and you're going to go to the last one. It's settings, and over here on the right hand side, you're going to go to privacy and security and looks like I need to go to a safety check here regarding some extensions and permissions, which I'll I'll do at a later date. But here this is where you can delete your browsing data. So a lot of times if your Internet browsers not working right, it's slowing down, just doing some stuff weird, you can go in here and you can delete browsing history, cookies and cashed items, and you can delete everything. You can delete the last twenty four hours, the last hour, last fifteen minutes, and then that might help your device run better. But then we go down here third party cookies. You can see mine it says third party cookies are blocked. But let's get

4:48 into it, and it might be by default that it's going to allow third party cookies unless you go in change it. So if you allow those thirty third party cookies, websites can use the third party cookies to personalize content and ads and learn about actions you take while you're on their website. Some website features rely on that rely on third party cookies. Should work as expected. But also when you're in incognito mode, Chrome block sites from using third party cookies. So there's a way to go in incognito mode as well, so I have them blocked, and so it's going to the websites cannot use third party cookies to personalize contents and ads and learn about actions that you take while you're on their site unless you have allowed related sites to access them. So down here at the bottom sites allowed to use third party cookies.

5:59 It affects any sites you have listed here. You would have to add them, so this would be an exception to blocking them up here. And in this instance you have to add asterisks before the dome name creates the exception for the entire domain, so that would be an exception to it. But the websites can still use cookies to see browsing activity on their own site, and site features that rely on third party cookies may not work. I could go in here and turn on to allow related sites to see activity in the group, but it's the company that's going to define a group of sites that can use cookies to share your activity in the group.

6:54 You would just have to click here and that turns it on. I'm going to turn it back off though. I've got this one. It's an advanced send to do not track request with your browsing traffic, and again there's this little disclaimer. Sites use their discretion when responding to this request, so that's a way too. Now you might still have to manage cookies on the actual site itself, because so let's go back to privacy guide you can.

7:35 That's just a tour there. Security. So this is I'm on Google and so you can here's some safe browsing. I have enhanced protection turned on, real time AI powered protection against dangerous sites, downloads and extensions. That's based on your browsing data getting sent to Google. So when this is on, it warns you about dangerous sites, even ones Google didn't know about before, by analyzing more data from sites than the regular standard protection. You can choose to skip Chrome. You can still choose to skip the warnings and go to the site, but at least it's giving you a warning. It does in depth scans for suspicious downloads and when you're signed in, and protects you across Google services. So it improves security, and there's some things that they want you to consider. It sends the URLs of sites you visit in a small sample of page content, downloads, extension, activity and systems information to Google Safe Browsing to check if they're harmful. So they are. It is sharing some information with Google when you're signed in The data is linked to your Google account to protect you, and it doesn't noticeably slow down your braw or your device. If you want to learn more about how Chrome keeps your data private, you can click here. If you don't have

9:08 enhanced protection on, it'll be standard or no protection, which is not recommended. So standard protection gives you some protection, but the enhanced protection gives you even more for safe browsing. This. I don't know why I don't have it turned on, but I'm going to turn it on now. Always use secure connections. For sites that don't support secure connections, get warned before visiting the site, so it warns you for insecure public sites. And I'm going to click here, so that was the default I'm going to click. I wanted to warn me for insecure public and private sites if they don't think it's a secure connection. There's some other things down here. Advanced you'll warn you if password was compromised in a data breach, So when you go to put the password in, it'll come up and tell you prompt you to change it, that it's been it's been in a data breach. And I've got this turned on.

10:14 This DNS make it harder for people with access to your Internet traffic to see which sites you visit, security keys, certificates. I don't need to go into any of those down there. So as you can see, there's a there's a ton of stuff in here. If you have autofills and passwords, you can go in here and it's going to list them and you can verify it to you or remove the account. You can change your autofill autofill settings down here's your Google password manager, your Google wallet. So there's a lot of different things you can do there. We go back to if you want to look at extensions, they're down here and look to see if you want to delete any extensions. And if I go back up to these three dots, so you can if you want to search you remember the one let's see third party was it under third party cookies? Is where it set it?

11:34 Or yeah? Right here allow related sites to see your activity in the group. I have it turned off. But if you are automatically in incognito mode, if that's how you're browsing, you click on those three dots. You can do a new tab, a new window, but you can do a new incognito window. And when I pull that up you're going to get this you've gone in, and that's a safer way to third party cookies are blocked. It won't say Chrome won't save your browsing history, cookies and other site data, and it won't save information entered in forms, but your activity might still be visible to websites you visit, your employer or school, and your internet service provider. So it's just an added layer of security if you want to go in cognito mode and then you can just type in a website and get there.

12:31 So that's it. On the cookies, I'm gonna stop sharing my screen. There we go a couple other things I wanted to just go over. I think we might have mentioned this on the last week's show when Joan was on towards the end, but I'm going to talk about it again. A lot of us, when we have the multi factor authentication code setup, we have it set up to be texted. It just might be easier for a lot of us. And if you don't have your text preview turned off, you're going to get you get your notification of the text, and it usually has the first couple lines of the text message would could very well show your multi factor code on there, so you want to make sure that you go in and turn that off.

13:29 Once you have it turned off, you are still going to see the name of the person or the phone number of the person or company that texted you, and it'll say text message, but it's not going to show a preview of the actual message itself. So if you and I haven't done this in a little while, So if you go into your settings and go down to apps, and then I have an iPhone, so I'm doing this from an iPhone an Android, you could just if you wanted to do an Internet search to say how to stop text message previews on Anandroid, then it'll give you the instructions. But once you go into settings, you go to apps, go to messages, and then go into I think it's under notifications, yeah, under notifications, and then down towards the bottom there's an area called lock screen appearance and it says show previews. You could have the default onmine is always show the preview, so you'd have to go in and you could say when it's unlocked, So when your phone's not locked, like maybe it's within that ten fifteen thirty seconds whatever it is from when you've used it, and a text message pops up if your phone is in the unlocked position, and it'll show the

15:00 preview of it if you have it when unlocked. I have never, So yes, it takes a little bit of extra time seconds because I have to unlock my phone, go into my text messages and read it in order to get the number. But it is safer. You don't want someone sitting there. You happen to go to the bathroom and your phone's locked, and you think it's safe, but then all of a sudden, they're trying to get into one of your accounts and it pops up on a text message preview and they can see your code. The other thing that I wanted to go over was in your settings. If you go down to apps, you can go down you can look at all your you can manage your default apps on the iPhone, but you can go down to every single app that you've downloaded, and you can look at the notifications. And I'm gonna choose American Airlines. I just flew in yesterday, so I'm choosing America in Airlines and the first one that comes up is location, and I have never, so I don't want I don't want my phone sharing my location with the American Airlines app. Now I have choices, and I have never chosen, but there's also always while using the

16:32 app or ask the next time or when I share it, So there's different different things. And then contacts is the next one down, So I have none. I don't want American Airlines app to have access to my contacts. I could say limited access, which means I'd have to go in and select which contacts I want American Airlines to have access to, or I could say full access, meaning they could have access to all every single contact that's in my phone. There'sn't any reason why they need it, they just want it. And a lot of times when you go to download an app, it will ask you for these voluntary permissions, and I think a lot of us, because we're in a hurry, we just say yes yes to get the app downloaded, without even looking and reading what permissions it's asking. So you can just go down through there some other things that are on here, as I could give it access to my camera, my Apple wallet, my calendars. So there's just there's a lot of things now, like on my calendar, I just tell it to add an event, so like if I book a ticket, then it'll automatically add it to my calendar. But you can go down through you know, any of your any of your other your other ones. And one of the ones I was gonna get onto was it Googles Google Maps here.

18:07 So if I get into Google Maps, now, if I want to use Google Maps, they're gonna have to know where my location is. And so I have that one set to while I'm using the app, it can access my location, which makes sense because it's gonna want to know where you're at in order to tell you how to get someplace that you're looking for. It it was asking for access to my photos, and I said, no, let's see some other ones in here, Hilton Honors, here's one that I have. Actually, that one I went into and it doesn't doesn't ask for your location or your contacts or anything like that. What about Instagram? So Instagram you can give it access to your location, but I don't.

19:01 I have never wants access to your photos, and I say none. Now, if you're it's going to have to have access if you try to go to post a photo you know, from your from your phone, and that could be the limited access which would be uh selected photos and you've given it access to those photos. So anyways, I think you guys get the idea. Just go into those and check out what permissions that you've given and turn off those ones that aren't necessary. Not every single app needs to know your location all the time, where you're at. They don't need they don't need to have access to your contacts, they don't need to have access to your photos, and so turn them off. Or like if it's on the Google Maps or a different map app, it's going to need your location while you're using the app because it needs to know where you're at. So just check those settings and and go in and and and let's stop sharing everything about us with all these different apps, and hopefully your friends and family talk to them, because if you're in their contacts, you don't want them sharing their contacts with those apps either and getting your information that way. So that's all I have for today.

20:31 Told you it was going to be a short one. Next week we're going to have a guest, Mary Doyle with Adult Care Assistants Home Care, and we are going to talk about in home non medical in home care and if if it is regulated here in Arizona, how that works, and some different questions to if you're searching for a non medical in home care company, you know, some different questions to ask when you're interviewing these companies, and you know, do all of them accept veterans benefits? Probably not, But anyways, Mary's is one of the many experts on this and so we're going to talk to her next week about that. So don't forget. Get on our website, Roseadvocacy dot org. Social media channels are at the top, signing up for the newsletters down at the bottom, and tune in to see what Mary has to say next week. All right, thank you, Well.

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