Your biographical information and other site interactions are also posted to your profile. Thankfully, your public profile doesn’t include your purchases or browsing history, but it’s still very informative. To control what is visible on your public profile, follow these steps: Here, you’ll see Edit public profile and Edit privacy settings. Spend time here and look around. You can select various options to review, such as your about me section, shopping lists, wish lists, any pets you added, etc. Be sure that you check your community activity section, too. I recommend you anonymize as much information here as you can. STOP SNOOPS: While you’re cleaning up your accounts, I suggest you visit Facebook. Tap or click for three settings you should change right now.
Be sure to make your lists private
The trouble is that anyone in the world can find your Wish List by searching your name. Granted, if your name is “John Smith,” you may not be easy to pinpoint. But if strangers find out where you live, they may deduce and identify your profile.
From in the Ordering and shopping preferences, choose Manage your lists.Make sure the Your Lists tab is selected. Hover over the three dots next to Send list to others on the top right, then select Manage list.Here, you can change your list details like your list name, the name of the recipient, email, birthday, and privacy.To change the list’s privacy settings from Public, simply select Private on the drop-down box next to Privacy.
You’re not done yet. This next step is very important. MORE TRACKING: You can see what Google knows about you, too, and delete it. Tap or click here for the steps. Meanwhile, you can also turn off personalized or targeted ads, which many customers find eerie and exasperating. Here’s how to turn off targeted ads on your browser: One of the Echo’s most brilliant features is its ability to interact with your smart home products. Location-based routines and triggers are great. Have the lights turn on when you’re entering your neighborhood. Put your Echo to work for more than news, playlists and weather reports. Learn how to set this up and more Echo tricks that you’ll use time and time again. What digital lifestyle questions do you have? Call Kim’s national radio show and tap or click here to find it on your local radio station. You can listen to or watch The Kim Komando Show on your phone, tablet, television or computer. Or tap or click here for Kim’s free podcasts.
