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"not visiting the sites that record this information" is, in fact, perfectly sufficient I have to run, so: @falconas: of course this is a sacrifice. But if s
by earl 15y ago
"not visiting the sites that record this information"
is, in fact, perfectly sufficient
I have to run, so:
@falconas: of course this is a sacrifice. But if sufficient people feel similarly, over time, one would expect companies to act accordingly.
@nobody_nowhere: damn, I totally forgot about cdns. But I can't imagine cdn contracts allow the cdn to use visit information from clients... or do they?
- falcolas 15y agoLet's pretend, for a minute, that you did not want Google to have your surfing habits. How many sites would you have to avoid in order to prevent them from getting any whiff of your information? I believe that "any site which uses adwords, google analytics or links youtube videos, or ..." is a good definition of insufficient.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoEven if you're browsing in private mode on Comodo Dragon? http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
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- ams6110 15y agoJust 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com (and others) in your /etc/hosts
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- yanw 15y agoGoogle offer opt-outs for their stuff. Bu that's not the point, the point is that if people are really that concerned about internet privacy they could install privacy software the same as with parental control software so their is no need to pile more restrictive innovation stifling laws.
- falcolas 15y agoPrivacy software doesn't help when your information is directly sold to the highest bidder (which can be the government, see the latest TomTom kerfuffle). There are technical steps we can take to minimize our publicly available footprint on the internet, but there's no way to completely control it, short of oversight on the corporations that mine our data. Perhaps this is lack of imagination on my part, but how does offering people the ability to opt out of invasive data collection stifle innovation? Sure, it's another hurdle for any company to overcome (one amongst thousands, if you run a for-profit site), but it doesn't stop new software from coming about.
- nobody_nowhere 15y agoit's hard to hide from akamai :)
- nobody_nowhere 15y ago...it's even harder to hide from global crossing, juniper networks, and the like. or verizon.