🔍 What Are Browser Trackers?
Browser trackers are tiny, invisible scripts hidden inside websites. They collect details about your browsing habits, device settings, and interests to create a digital “fingerprint” that can be used for targeted ads or profiling. This reduces privacy and makes you easier to track across different sites.
🛡 How Trend Micro ID Protection Helps
Trend Micro ID Protection automatically blocks these trackers and prevents:
- Advertisers from building detailed profiles about you
- Fingerprinting techniques that reveal unique information about your device
- Websites from storing unnecessary cookies
- Annoying ads that follow you around the web
How to Block Trackers and Ads on Your Mobile Device
- Open the Trend Micro ID Protection app
- Go to the Privacy tab
- Switch ON Privacy Protection — this uses a secure local VPN to block trackers and hide browsing activity
- Review tracker and ad blocking stats in the report section.
How to Block Trackers and Ads on Your Web Browser
- Open a web browser with the ID Protection Extension installed.
- Go to idprotect.trendmicro.com.
- Click your profile icon (top right), then choose Settings.
- From the left menu, select Trackers & Ads.
- Switch ON these items to prevent websites from collecting information about your online activity.
- Block Trackers, Cookies
- Fingerprinting Protection
- Switch ON these items to block ads to speed up your browsing experience.
- Block Ads
- Block YouTube Ads
- Block Page Elements
Too see the current stats on what ID Protection has blocked or removed on your browser:
- Click the ID Protection icon in your browser toolbar
- Click the Privacy Report tab icon (below the Vault 🗝️ tab) you see on the left menu.
📊 Check Privacy Report
The Privacy Report shows protection stats from the past 30 days:
- Trackers and ads blocked
- Cookies removed
- Fingerprint protection status
- Suggested actions to further secure your privacy
📍 Don’t Have ID Protection Yet?
Install it on your browser or mobile device and try it free for 7 days:
✔ Pro Tip: Keep Privacy Protection ON at all times for continuous tracker blocking, and check your Privacy Report regularly to see how your online activity is being safeguarded.