[ale] [OT]I think this is awesome, you may find it scary

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Take a look at the ghostery, better privacy, and collusion plugins.  Collusion maps all the tracking cookies graphically, and after using the browser a while, it's scary.  I have ghostery set to block over 1000 tracking cookies, but it's probably still a loosing battle.

I have my FF settings to accept cookies, but not third party, and keep until FF closes, which is rarely.  I have the clear on close settings to remove everything except cookies and site prefs.  It's a bit confusing, but these settings should delete all cookies when I close (due to the keep until FF closes menu) except the ones that I've made permanent exceptions for, like my bank.

Also, look into disabling DOM storage, which is a whole other way they can invade your privacy.  The better privacy plugin can help delete flash cookies.

By using the flash settings manager at this address, you can set flash not to allow flash cookies except for the websites you want to have them:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html

You have to be using flash and trust macromedia.com and adobe.com for this to work.  If you're not using flash, you don't care about this.

Click global storage settings, and check all three boxes.

Then click website storage settings and specifically allow things that have to have flash cookies to work, like pandora.  Delete everything else.

Sincerely,

Ron


"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>One of the reasons why I block all java script/flash on pages using No
>Script is the amount of information various sites collect for no
>reason.   It is also why I remove all cookies and history every time I
>close my browser.
>
>Almost every site you go to has a Google Analytics script and many have
>another Google script not to mention the plethora of other marketing
>gathering scripts for various organizations.   I don't need them to
>advertise to me - If I'm interested I'll search for it.
>
>What is really annoying is that deleting cookies automatically
>apparently doesn't kill tracking cookies.  I have to run an anti-virus
>scan to catch and delete those though over this past weekend I did put
>in a filter that I'm hoping will prevent the worst of them in the first
>place.
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>Dennis Ruzeski
>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:56 AM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [ale] [OT]I think this is awesome, you may find it scary
>
>Marketing people call this "Behavioral Targeting".  I call it
>obnoxious.  You'll find that ads for that on almost any site that uses
>Google Ad-Sense that you browse to.
>
>--Dennis
>
>
>
>On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Richard Bronosky
><richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
>> So, we have been talking about cable modems in another thread. I have
>> replied to the thread, but I never searched for a product to
>reference
>> or anything like that. Now, when I go to amazon.com to order some
>more
>> "I'm too busy coding to get up and eat right now" bars. I see an ad
>> for the Motorola
>> 6141 SurfBoard Modem. I can only assume that Google scanned my Gmail
>> and caused this to happen. I've seen my searches in Google Shopping
>> and on Amazon affect Google adsense ads and Amazon ads respectively.
>> But, I've never seen such a crossover. Maybe it is a coincidence. I
>don't think it is.
>>
>> I think this is awesome. I know I am going to see ads when surfing
>the net.
>> I expect it. When the ads are well targeted, I like it. That's right.
>> I like ads! I go to my job and earn money so that I can buy geeky
>> stuff like Android tablets, RaspberryPi accessories, and flash drives
>> so small you can lose them inside a USB port. I like that I see ads
>> for these things instead of for Lexus and Tampax. I only wish my TV
>ads were so relevant.
>>
>> Okay, queue the "corporapist" rant.
>>
>> --
>> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
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