Comments on: Google wants YOU, like it or not

By: Zazick

Zazick — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:58:31 +0000

Here you can chat, run your own page or blog, upload pictures and video, join thematic groups, and more…

By: PG

PG — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:40:34 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=trackmenot&cat=all

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:03:38 +0000

“Iâd prefer to have an ad appear that offered me health drinks and discount sports gear rather than penis enlargement pills and pheromones…”

I personally don’t care what ads they post.
What I DO care about is that they post this on their own, without tracking me and/or creating any databases that contain my habits or even more explicit personal info.

I don’t care where they post ads, either, as long as they post them on the page I’ve called, and not insert a pop-up/pop-under (regardless of whether the ad contains anything I might be interested in). In most cases, that’s another browser connection I wouldn’t have asked for or approved of.

Since I can’t count on anyone not to do either of these things, very few sites get to have cookies on my drive.

These days, you shouldn’t allow cookies to be automatically accepted anyway, as it just leaves the door open to garbage like the “Antivirus XP” infestation that’s still out there in droves.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:29:48 +0000

Your making it sound like that’s bad thing? like Big brother is trying to catch you out watching child porn so they can blackmail you? almost paranoid even, all it comes down to is this : At the end of the day you can’t sell what people aren’t buying, so find out what they want and give it to them the best way possible… I’d prefer to have an ad appear that offered me health drinks and discount sports gear rather than penis enlargement pills and pheromones for example…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:11:01 +0000

I ran into this earlier today. I went to the Opt-out page. There it lists all the cookies you have in your browser for it’s system. Quite a list actually. Since I have my browser set not to accept third party cookies and to clean all the cookies out everytime I close the browser, I had no cookies listed in anything they hope for you to have. Just for grins and giggles, I tried to opt-out. They have that great “select all” button so you don’t have to check everything. Trouble is, once done you find out that most of them, it doesn’t work with. Instead, they want you to show up and each site and do it yourself. Since there are probably and additional twenty or better remaining, it appears to me that it is to make it as much of a headache as possible to get the Opt-out done.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:28 +0000

@DA
Hey sounds good.

If you find anything interesting do a post on it. Sounds like it would be interesting.

hmmm a post on your profile?

Makes a catchy headline: My profile, needs and habits, according to google (or something like that).

By: surfer

surfer — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:22:46 +0000

AdBlock

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:04:27 +0000

I installed the plug-in a few days ago, and will be doing my own tests next week to see it is what it claims to be (and nothing more!).

I’m just going to give it a little time to make logs or create any unwanted files, if it’s going to do that. In the meantime, I’m watching to see if anything in the way of “targetted ads” starts. (So far, nothing to report.)