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Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done?

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-track-me-bro dept.

bsk_cw (1202181) writes "The W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group has been trying to come up with a way to make targeted ads acceptable to users and useful to advertisers — and so far, hasn't gotten very far. Computerworld's Robert Mitchell has interviewed people on all sides of the issue — consumer privacy advocates, vendors of ad-blocking tools, advertisers and website publishers — to try to unravel the issues and see if any solution is possible at all."

2 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. RequestPolicy plugin for Firefox by chrysosphinx · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... It just works. Together with old AdBlock, no more tracking of me anywhere.

  2. Re:Wear the tin foil hat by nabsltd · · Score: 5, Informative

    IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to plain html/css with ideally, minimum loss of functionality

    Yeah, but then you wouldn't have to whitelist the JavaScript to see the content and get all the advertisements too. Working as intended.

    Most sites don't serve their own ads, so I can generally allow the site itself without getting ads. And, since NoScript has a "temporarily enable..." choice, I do that and only permanently enable sites that I use regularly.

    For example, I allow slashdot.com and fsdn.com, but googleadservices.com, google-analytics.com, rpxnow.com, and doubleclick.net (which are all included into the /. pages) are all set to "untrusted".