If you’re like millions around the world getting ready to head back to school this fall, you’re figuring our first, if your campus will even be open, and second, how to adjust to the idea of distance learning.

If you’re a privacy minded student, the idea of distance learning can come with a great deal of stress, and if you’re not yet privacy minded, you may unwillingly end up giving corporations and your school far more personal information than you intend to.

Thankfully, there are steps you can take to ensure your privacy while having such little control over the sites and services your school will make you use.

Choose your browser wisely.

A browser such as Firefox or Vivaldi can help you block trackers on sites you’re visiting, reduce your browser fingerprint, and with the right plugins, can isolate sites into containers so that information can’t be shared between tabs you have open.

Upon visiting various popular school sites for grades ranging from kindergarten to college, I came across no fewer than five trackers monitoring your page use, and on some sites, found ads meant to be tailored to your internet history.

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