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Google and Facebook Top Biggest Web Tracker List
itwbennett writes "A new report from Evidon, whose browser plug in Ghostery tracks Web trackers, makes it plain that 'if you want to worry about somebody tracking you across the Web, worry about Google,' writes blogger Dan Tynan. Google and Facebook, and their various services, occupy all of the top 5 slots on the Evidon Global Tracker Report's list of the most prolific trackers. 'And if you have any tracking anxiety left over, apply it to social networks like Facebook, G+, and Twitter,' adds Tynan."
Check out the Collusion plugin from Mozilla if you want to see for yourself who is tracking you and the relationships between them. Has a nice graphical overview.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
they should just focus adverts based on what I'm viewing right now and then. NOT by what I viewed a week ago. NOT by what someone else viewed from the same browser a week ago. I'm doing a search for "fucking inkjet cartridges" then fuck, advertise me some fucking inkjet cartridges and porno then. NOT FUCKING AFTER I'VE ALREADY BOUGHT BOTH AND AM ACTUALLY SEARCHING FOR A FUCKING GOOD BROWNIES RECIPE!!!!
the tracking... IT DOES NOTHING, but billions spent on it regardless. how do they know the tracking is "working" in getting you the advertisements you want? well, because they're fucking tracking it so their tracking proves that the tracking experts should be paid lots and lots of money.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Facebook might be the biggest enemy of privacy on the web right now.
I don't think so.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Do you think logging out really does you any good? Chances are you can be uniquely identified from your browser's user agent string. Google remembers your IP. Google remembers the searches you do from that IP. Google has a bug on just about every website out there.
If you want to avoid Google, you need to use it only from a deidentified browser, behind an anonymizing proxy. You need to reject all scripts from Google, and reject all cookies. If you do all this, it will be a pain in the ass to get any work done, and I'm still not sure they won't be able to figure out who you are.
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If you were riding a bus, would you expect everyone to cover their ears?
I expect them to "hear" but not deliberately "listen", certainly not to "record", and absolutely not to maintain a linked set of recordings they have made of me at different times I have been on the bus.
This is the social contract most normal people live by.