google does know me best and can remember and predict my behaviour with far greater accuracy than i canday 3is about downloading more browser extensions panopticlick to check if youre protected from nonconsensual web tracking privacy badger to stop ad trackers what facebook thinks you like to find out what ad personality the social media company has assigned youi apparently am a person of indeterminate age with interests in entre rios province in argentina i havent the foggiest idea why and georgia us because i liked a page of a friend running for public office to fb my hobbies are human and here i was thinking that was a fulltime occupation and illuminated manuscripts because ordinary manuscripts are just for the slushpilethere may not be a point to changing settings it only affects whether facebook decides to show you certain ads or not information will still be gathered and facebook can put you in whatever bucket it wishes today 4i have more addons than ive ever used in my life but now were stopping the invisible trackers that follow you around the net as well as untagging self and friends from mortifying posts and picturesday56these are devoted to cleaning your phone deleting apps resetting permissions and downloading less toxic apps that dont hoover up so much data if you have more than 40 apps youre broadcasting data that even advertisers probably dont want google fit threw a fit when i turned off location tracking and kept sending dire warnings about how it couldnt do its jobday 7its time to see your data selfie or how facebook profiles you its similar to what companies like cambridge analytica used algorithms that predict sentiments personality type political leanings religious orientation shopping preferences health the last day is about helping you set goals and reminders so you dont leave the door to your data open againdo i feel lighter at the end of eight days ive spent an entire day on facebook more time than i ever have to test the data selfie tool gone from zero to seven browser extensions downloaded six less toxic apps and spent rs 99 on an app that visualises radio waves around me it may not be a total detox but it does force you to look at how your data is being misused and realise that you have to pay for services if you dont want to turn into the primary product to be sold to a third partybut for now im going to turn my location tracking back on so google maps will get me home and google fit can tell me how far ive walked