Reducing Your Digital Footprint — What Options Exist — Quiz
1.
Which of the following accurately describes what a VPN protects against?
2.
Why is browser fingerprinting harder to block than cookie-based tracking?
3.
How does Privacy Badger differ technically from uBlock Origin?
4.
What does Tor's routing through multiple relay nodes protect against, and what does it NOT protect against?
5.
What is the primary purpose of an email alias service such as SimpleLogin?
6.
Explain the concept of a threat model in the context of privacy tools, and give one example of how the appropriate tool choice differs depending on threat model.
7.
What does academic research suggest about the gap between VPN marketing claims and actual privacy protection, and what is the fundamental reason a VPN cannot eliminate a trusted party from the picture?
8.
Describe what DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protects against and identify one trade-off in its use.