Smartphone, don't spy!

Checklist: Advertising and marketing

Advertising and marketing campaigns use images and words to try to influence your thoughts and therefore your daily behavior. Instead of deciding for yourself what is good and right, large corporations and companies try to take these decisions away from you. This can lead to problematic consumer behavior. These strategies are also used to influence democratic elections. And as if that wasn't enough, advertising networks collect masses of private information about individuals from apps and websites and sell it to data traders. You can defend yourself against this with the following tips.

• Deactivate Wi-Fi if you don't need it
• Deactivate Bluetooth if you don't need it
• You have freed your phone from bloatware
• You have deactivated or deleted your advertising ID
• You use privacy-friendly apps
• You are not transmitting your screen to a smart TV
• You clean up links before you share them with others
• You use privacy-friendly payment options
• Use alternative frontends
• You use decentralized open source alternatives to common social media platforms
• You are using an ad blocker
• You use privacy-friendly search engines
• You consistently refuse your consent on websites
• You encrypt your emails or do without them
• Avoid logins via Google, Apple or Microsoft