Free tool makes it easy to see which sites are selling your data

Have you ever noticed a link on a website you regularly visit that indicates you can opt out of the company selling your data? Probably not. Those links can hide in plain sight, and if you miss one your data may have been saved and sold. Data is valuable to some organizations, and they go to great lengths to collect it, save it, and sell it.

Global Privacy Control (GPC) offers extensions and links to browsers and apps that support the effort to opt out. The service began in 2020 and was inspired by the California Consumer Privacy Act, which gives California residents the right to opt out of businesses selling their data.

GPC is currently available for Brave Privacy Browser, Disconnect, DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, Mozilla's Firefox (Nightly), OptMeowt by privacy-tech-lab, Privacy Badger, and the Global Privacy Control (GPC) Inspector (Chrome extension). OptMeowt is simple to use but carries a caveat: LayerX Security lists it as 5.0/10 and flags two critical permission warnings related to access to network traffic and scripting.

United States, California

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