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Browser Spyware: Watching Where You Linger
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Just when you you'd installed Junkbuster and thought it was safe to go back onto the web, the BBC runs this story which tells you that webshites will soon(?) be able to tell whether you are reading the page, what parts of it are of interest to you, etc. Guess we can expect porn sites to be the first to take advantage of this." Or perhaps someone else is already doing this, and hasn't told you.
Get ready for the "marketing geniuses" to take advantage of this...by having new windows pop up right when you move your mouse to the back button...
Anyone else up for using keyboard shortcuts now?
When nuance becomes the only objective we lose the ability to function
1) WebWasher (www.webwasher.de). It blocks cookies, scripts animations, web bugs, referer URLs, images, and a whole host of other things. It is highly configurable can be used as a proxy server if you have an in-house LAN connected to a shared broadband connection, and is much more powerful than Guidescope (which Junkbuster recommends for use under Windows).
2) Ad-Aware 5.6 (www.lavasoftusa.com). Run this at least once a week. It will find any ad tracking cookies, spy-ware and various other privacy invading data/programs that get left on your machine. The new version scans your memory, your registry, and your entire HD (very quickly). It finds and removes everything privacy invasion related.