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TunnelBear Rumbles With Online Trackers And Social Media

tunnelbear [1]TunnelBear [1], a Toronto company building apps to make online privacy and an open Internet accessible to everyone, is squaring off with data brokers, advertisers and social media companies that track everything consumers do online. While it’s as simple as an on/off button to the user, in the background the new TunnelBear app [2] is protecting user privacy by hiding both the users’ IP address and zapping many of the ads, scripts, cookies, social buttons and beacons that these companies are using to track consumers online.

Social media buttons have become widespread and with that so has the amount of personal information people unintentionally handover. In addition to the data willingly posted to services like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, social sharing buttons also report back to social media companies all the different sites you visit even if you don’t interact with them. With the new TunnelBear features, social buttons can’t collect information about your visit unless you directly use them.

In the last few years advertisers, data brokers and social media companies have teamed up against consumers to build increasingly complete records of everything you do both online and offline. “Remember when browsing the web, couldn’t possibly impact your credit score? When using social media didn’t mean consenting to a record of your entire web history? And when shopping for a pair of shoes didn’t mean targeted ads for the next month? TunnelBear does, and we think the Internet is a better a place when websites and services can’t track everything you do online,” said Ryan Dochuk, co-founder of TunnelBear. “It’s only fair consumers have a TunnelBear fighting in their corner.”

Five new ways TunnelBear protects your privacy:

With three tiers of pricing, PC and Mac customers can find a plan that is “just right” for them. TunnelBear is free with limited data, unlimited data versions of TunnelBear are $4.99 per month (Giant TunnelBear) or $49.99 for a year (Grizzly TunnelBear).

 

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#1 Comment By Tami Quiring (@VillageGamer) On Friday October 4, 2013 @ 3:17 am

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