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How To Stop Google From Following You
Popular Science ^
| 03.11.2009
| Lauren Aaronson
Posted on 03/12/2009 8:40:04 PM PDT by george76
A simple tool lets you opt out of advertising programs that track your Web clicks.
Hundreds of thousands of Web sites show ads provided by Google, such as those little text ads that offer you everything from diets to dog training. Now Google has announced plans to track your clicks across all these sites, and then serve up ads personalized to your tastes...
As Big Brother as it sounds, this is actually something that many advertising companies already do. But don't worry: There's a way to stop Google--and all the others--from prying.
Although it isn't well-publicized, many other Internet advertisers offer a way to opt out of their programs, too. Free yourself from dozens at once at Network Advertising Initiative, whose site shows you which ad networks are currently tracking you and lets you opt out of all of them with a click.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ads; computers; goog; google; internet; network; optout; privacy; spying; tracking
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03/12/2009 8:40:04 PM PDT
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george76
To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/12/2009 8:40:53 PM PDT
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george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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03/12/2009 8:46:05 PM PDT
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KoRn
To: girlangler
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03/12/2009 8:46:31 PM PDT
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george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
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03/12/2009 8:47:45 PM PDT
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Cruz
("Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal t)
To: KoRn
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posted on
03/12/2009 8:47:48 PM PDT
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george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
What are these ads on the web that you speak of? I remember seeing ads on the internet years ago, but I can’t remember the last time I saw one.
To: george76
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posted on
03/12/2009 8:49:52 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: george76
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03/12/2009 8:56:31 PM PDT
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Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
To: george76
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03/12/2009 9:01:14 PM PDT
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Nipfan
(The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
To: george76
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03/12/2009 9:04:31 PM PDT
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Old Sarge
("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
To: george76
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03/12/2009 9:05:14 PM PDT
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1forall
(America - my home, my land, my country.)
To: george76
Configure your browser to block third-party cookies.
Third-party cookies are how ad servers (third parties) track you from visit to visit.
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03/12/2009 9:05:39 PM PDT
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cynwoody
To: Salvation
>Does it cost anything?
Just your soul. [/cynic]
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03/12/2009 9:20:29 PM PDT
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OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: george76
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03/12/2009 9:24:36 PM PDT
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NordP
(CONSERVATIVE AGAIN IN 2010 ..... Now, is it 2012 yet ???)
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03/12/2009 9:26:57 PM PDT
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SnarlinCubBear
(Sarcasma - Comforting relief from the use of irony, mocking and conveying contempt)
To: KoRn
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03/12/2009 9:29:43 PM PDT
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ArmyTeach
("Significant problems we face can not be solved by the same level of thinking that created them")
To: george76
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03/12/2009 9:36:05 PM PDT
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Scotswife
(GO ISRAEL!!!)
To: cynwoody
Yeah, mine is set to that and when I went to the page, it said I didn’t have any cookies from any of the sites.
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posted on
03/12/2009 9:49:10 PM PDT
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Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: george76
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