Posted on 10/29/2013 6:59:33 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising and amass valuable user profiles.
The moves could radically shift the balance of power in the $120 billion global digital advertising industryand have ad technology companies scrambling to figure out their next play.
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On Wednesday, Microsoft quietly announced in a blog post that the company will give marketers the ability to track and advertise to people who use apps on its Windows 8 and 8.1 operating system on tablets and PCs. The company will do this by assigning each user a numbera unique identifierthat monitors them across all of their apps. (The system doesn't block cookies in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.) Industry players think Microsoft-powered smartphones and Xbox game consoles will be a natural extension of the system, but Microsoft kept mum on the question.
Microsoft could then use its access to consumers to broker advertising to people or sell data about users as part of demographic categories, such as avid game players under 40 who also check sports apps. Earlier this year, Apple also began offering advertisers the ability to trail and target users through a unique ID on smartphones and tablets.
Google's plans, which the company disclosed in only the broadest of terms last month, would also make use of a unique ID. But the tracking could be far-reaching, say industry experts. Google's system could tie together data about users across all the company's productsGmail, the Chrome browser and Android phones. In a statement about its efforts, the company said "technological enhancements" like an identifier could improve security "while ensuring the Web remains economically viable."
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I have numerous gmail accounts and they always ask for a number and I never give them a correct one. I don’t think it has any bearing, at least for me.
Google + accounts are another matter. But there are ways around that nonsense of “proving you are REAL” garbage also.
I like the idea of using numbers like the White House, etc. Think I will steal that one. And...ooo!...NSA would be a good one!
I am not a fan of ‘puter fascism: google doesn’t own the web...I do not particularly care what they want.
and the only good news out of that is that Windows 8 is a dog of a program (probably made to Ocare specs)
Disabling them returned conditions to the way I had always been familiar when using the web.
So, these programs do seem to work.
Thanks for posting these links.
Thank you about a ton. Maybe more.
My Google accounts ARE attached to one of our Tracfones and we have received only one call — an automated call from Google Security saying that our password might have been compromised and an attempted login from another location had been blocked. Emails from Google came at the same time. I was glad to get this call.
Other than some tinfoil scenarios, I’m not sure what the big concern about the phone connection is.
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pish posh
if they dont know me by now they will never never know me at allllllll
the best news is i gotsted my dads new raingutters up on saturday after him yammering at me all summer and it (finally) rained like a b yesterday and ma said woohoo that old man is happy
They undoubtedly have a voice print for each of us.
i sended them a fecal sample labeled long john just a hopin’
I’ve got a tracphone also. There’s some kind of interference with it and my computer speakers and I get a signal crackle through the speakers a couple of seconds before a text ringtone goes off.
About once an hour the speakers give a similar but not as strong crackle like the phone is receiving a signal.
Maybe the phone company pings it at regular intervals to see how many phones are online in the network in a particular tower area?
I once thought it a good idea to have an untraceable phone but anywhere I went it seemed I had to give up some ID - Now I could really use one. Any clues?
Oops - More coffee needed ... FReepmail is fine. ;-)
That was frikken hilarious Laz!!
:)
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