Privacy protection: understand ad data without needing a law degree.
Everyone wants your data: apps, retailers, ad platforms, even the random sites you only visit once. This page is where we turn the lights on — explaining what's happening and give you practical ways to protect yourself.
A guide, not a scare tactic.
We're not here to panic you — just to explain what's going on and give you options so you can decide what feels right for you.
Free tools to take back a little control.
Start here if you just want some quick wins. These are tools, settings, and habits that cost nothing but can make tracking a little less intense and your feeds a little more tolerable.
Ad Blockers
Stop pop-ups, video ads, trackers, or potential malware. Use an ad blocker to almost eliminate ads from your browsing experience. I recommend downloading a web extension.
Top ad blockersThird Party Cookies
Cookies are snippets of code websites and advertisers use to remember you. You can customize or deny them, usually an initial pop-up when you visit a site. Deny or remove them from your settings.
Manage cookies in Chrome (similar steps for others)The Plus Method: "+" (Works for Gmail, Hotmail & Outlook)
Signing up for something new? Try adding a "+" and some identifier text before the @ in your email, then if you get emails from anything other than the intended source - you know they are selling your data.
For example, if your email is hello@gmail.com. You can use hello+facebook@gmail.com to sign up for Facebook. Emails sent to that address still go to your inbox, and if an email comes in from anywhere else than Facebook - they sold your data. Change the identifier for whatever else.
When you're ready to go deeper.
We're not necessarily anti-ad, it is our profession at the end of the day. We're very much anti-creepy / scummy ads though. Our Education page gives you the ins and outs of how it all works, the section above gives you some free tools to take back some control, this section is our paid offering for this.
Future paid offering idea
People go to a financial advisor needing help managing and investing money. Go to a real estate agent needing help navigating the home buying process. Go to a lawyer for advice and action with their legal situation.
Our vision is those positions, but for your marketing privacy. Whether you want to limit your data exposure and ads altogether, or just make the ads you see as relevant as possible - we'll advise you there and manage everything.
Help to:
- Know who has your data.
- Limit data exposure as much as possible.
- Tailor ads to companies you actually want to see.
- Receive customized offers from brands, just for you.