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An Icon That Says They’re Watching You
- chanux 18y agoThis might be a good idea in help answering some privacy issues arising.
- chaosmachine 18y agoIf you prefer to opt out of Google's interest tracking system: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
- streety 18y agoDoes anyone else feel the bit about "Your cookie" on this page highly misleading? I can easily imagine the less tech savvy seeing a string of seemingly random characters, thinking it's all gibberish, and wondering what all the fuss is about.
- Steve0 18y agoGhostery gives you some insight in these things: http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/ .
- axod 18y ago"They're watching you" "Web bugs" Nothing like an unbiased un-sensationalist explanation. I can just imagine some granny reading that and being worried sick her computer has web bugs.
- graemep 18y agoI am much more concerned about ISPs and the likes of Phorm. They can collect far more information, they can tie it to your real name and address. This would do nothing to help with that, as they do not only track the sites on which the ads appear.