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You can opt out of Facebook/Google/Foursquare/etc, you can't opt out from your government.
by eCa 14y ago
You can opt out of Facebook/Google/Foursquare/etc, you can't opt out from your government.
- sp332 14y agoEvery time I visit a page with a little FB "Like" button on it, Facebook knows (via a cookie) what page I've visited. They track people even if they don't have accounts. It's not so easy to opt out of that. (I installed ShareMeNot for Firefox but it's not obvious that you can do that.)
- chopsueyar 14y agoEdit your hosts file.
- sp332 14y agoThat only works until FB (or Google or whoever) starts using IP addresses in their CDN URLs, or Google hard-codes DNS values for Google analytics servers into Chrome, or whatever. ShareMeNot prevents the browser from even trying to fetch the content.
- chopsueyar 14y agoWell if "Google hard-codes DNS values for Google analytics servers into Chrome", your precious ShareMeNot is as useless as my suggestion. But you do admit my suggestion currently works.
- eCa 14y agoI use http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/.