How many of you, have already enabled the ‘do not track me’ button in your favorite browser?
Or did you even find or not bothered looking.
In a nutshell, this feature should tell a website to not track your own footsteps you take from site to site. So that marketing firms can not take advantage off your web habits and create a profile of you.
It would be nice to hear from everyone (well that will not happen) and share your experience. And, does it actually work? We will see.
In firefox you need to go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced and there under Browsing the last checker is for not, well it says anyway.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:06:01 +0000, JoergJaeger wrote:
> - no, don’t care
Noticed it only a few days ago and thought “Wozzat?” As I haven’t been
aware of any ill-effects through not having it switched on, I’m wondering
how I would notice any improvement - if there were one.
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As I understand it, this is all done on the honor system. It depends on businesses honoring your request to not be tracked.
Some businesses are honorable. But they likely weren’t tracking me anyway.
Instead of relying on business, I do my best to thwart most tracking. I run a script to start firefox, and have that script delete most cookies. I restart firefox at least once per day, to be sure that the cookie cleanup occurs. I use “noscript” and “flashblock”. And I periodically run a script to delete flash cookies.
I have now turned on “do not track”. I don’t expect it to have any noticeable effect.
I was amused when reading this thread. The bottom of the page has a list of “Similar Threads.” The list includes “Amarok2, how to add track to collection” and “How to track down the cause of crashes”. Obviously, they have not yet solved the AI (artificial intelligence) problem.
Well, as far as tracking goes. Just check this forum. It does get tracked by Google (hey Google).
Most, if not all websites like to use Google to be placed in front of web searches. In return, every user will be in their databases and thats without any consent. Of course one can argue that by using the web you already gave your consent.
As far as i know, all major browsers should have this option for the user to select (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Chrome etc.)
I heart of one instance, as an example that showed how tracking can affect you, that by researching a product on a certain site, due to tracking that you will get presented the best fit on other websites which have links to major retailers like Amazon. Just look a certain product up for awhile and see what comes up.
I do think that this option, even if its currently only voluntarily, is a good option and if it becomes law anywhere on the planet, it is good thing.
Okay. But that’s a different issue entirely. By tracking the forum, they pick up the string “JoergJaeger”. But they cannot connect that to your computer and to what you do on other sites, especially if you use different login names at those other sites. So they aren’t really tracking you, just by building a search database.
They do track a little more than that. Of course it is for marketing purpose, thats what Google does. Selling information. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Google_Analytics
Most websites do have a link to Google. Wikipedia is one of the sites, that is free of Google and does offer https.
Personally, I do block both google and google-analytics in “noscript”. I occasionally have to temporarily allow google, so that a site search button works. But, blocking most of their scripts greatly reduces their ability to track.
They also use IP geolocation, so that some google search results feature sites in an adjacent town (where geolocation databases think I am located).
On 04/16/2011 09:36 PM, Ski K2 wrote:
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> Tracking will soon become unlawful in the US. A law is already before
> congress. Then websites will be required by law to honor do-not-track.
and, the Justice Department will track down and prosecute non-complying
web sites in the EU, China, North Korea, etc etc etc ??
let me know how that works out for you!
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I have it turned on but … while it doesn’t per say track me, it does does track the sequence of webpages visited. This is only a subtle difference in that my nid is not attached to website details, but if the site does honor the do-not-track feature it can send a request to the browser which will respond with your info. It’s just to make people feel at ease in a marketing snooping world. Hasn’t anyone noticed that if they have yahoo or google mail the ads shown reflects content derived from emails currently in the inbox,trash,spam and private folders. Also note that downloading emails to kmail and permanently deleting from the online webmail seems to refocus the ads shown to general since there are no history to draw from. Next notice that when people you communicate with decide to forward emails person to person, spam takes a major increase with the bulk of that increase being advertizing. What a world we live in.
On 09/03/2011 03:26 AM, techwiz03 wrote:
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> Hasn’t anyone noticed that if they have yahoo or google mail the ads
> shown reflects content derived from emails currently in the
> inbox,trash,spam and private folders.
no, i have noticed that…where do you see these ads?
oh, do you not use firefox and adblock? give it a try.
[QUOTE=DenverD;2380885]On 09/03/2011 03:26 AM, techwiz03 wrote:
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> Hasn’t anyone noticed that if they have yahoo or google mail the ads
> shown reflects content derived from emails currently in the
> inbox,trash,spam and private folders.
no, i have noticed that…where do you see these ads?
oh, do you not use firefox and adblock? give it a try.
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