How to increase your privacy online

In light of the recent Facebook scandals, we’ve become increasingly aware of how much data we leave behind online. Some of our data gets there because we hand it over to websites willingly, but a lot of it doesn’t happen that way. We leave involuntary trails behind us as we browse the web, and websites and ad networks use this information to build profiles of what we like to target ads to us.
Sometimes that’s helpful, but a lot of it comes off as creepy, unwanted, and intrusiv