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Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You
merbs writes When we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online. But an astonishing number of the pages we visit to learn about private health concerns—confidentially, we assume—are tracking our queries, sending the sensitive data to third party corporations, even shipping the information directly to the same brokers who monitor our credit scores.
Replace "smoker" with "diabetic", "downs syndrome parent", "thyroid issue" (obesity), etc etc...
Once that box is opened, all bets are off as to what can be denied. ;)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Use Adblock Edge. By hiding what it was doing, Adblock Plus has killed itself.
By hiding what it was doing when it sneakily adopted Microsoft Bing search, calling it Yahoo search, Mozilla Foundation has done irreparable harm to Firefox. Mozilla Foundation seems to be driving users to the Pale Moon 64-bit version of Firefox with Adblock Latitude.
Incognito doesn't stop them from recording your IP address. Especially if they don't have any other information about you they are going to zero in on your IP address and use it to integrate the data from your previous (and future) browsing records,