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I'm not sure this idea would have the effect you're looking for. The 'watchers' as you referred to them in a comment, probably don't care that you or anybody kn
by pedalpete 13y ago
I'm not sure this idea would have the effect you're looking for. The 'watchers' as you referred to them in a comment, probably don't care that you or anybody knows that they're watching. We already know, or at this point assume they are. Beyond that, how would you be gathering the IP addresses used?I assume that what they are running is little more than clever bots which can scrape data and get past most site security. It isn't an actual person going through every page on the internet. They're storing mass amounts of data to do analysis on at a later time.
Basically, the most important things like your Facebook, GMail, mobile and Twitter data are already being gathered. If you saw a little pixel image saying "somebody is capturing your data", would you stop using these services? If not, you're not really having much effect, I don't think.
- bufferout 13y agoI don't think I've done a very good job of explaining this. The people within these organisations also browse the web: what I'm proposing is that we publish the details of what they're browsing. For example, if a site such as torrentfreak decided to embed the tracking gif, I for one would find it very interesting to see what gov departments are reading which articles on that site.