Posted on 09/25/2017 6:14:37 AM PDT by ptsal
Google trackers have been found on 75% of the top million websites. This means they are not only tracking what you search for, they're also tracking which websites you visit, and using all your data for ads that follow you around the internet. Your personal data can also be subpoenaed by lawyers, including for civil cases like divorce. Google answered over 100,000 such data requests in 2016 alone!
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Whatever happened to GAB?
The the Australian host really jerk the IP address?
Apparently, the “nazis” ruined it?
arrogance and power....Goolag
I use Adblock Plus and Self-destructing cookies—so what’s an ad, and what’s a cookie? I haven’t seen either in an age! Kinda sweet!
Is Adblock plus a PAID app?
What are Self-destructing cookies?
Please share.
I use Goog sparingly as it is marginally better for a very few categories of results. I use AdBlockPlus. That said, a small number of sites that request I disable ABP have information I need/want at the time, so I comply on a per se basis.
Only one or two sites (Drudge) persist in showing me ads and I’ve noticed that they always lead with the item I just purchased. So, let me understand the strategy: I buy something and am immediately presented with an ad for my most recent purchase, which...I know you get it...I do not now need.
Such brilliant marketeers.
Both programs are absolutely free just search using the program names, you’ll find them. Self-destructing cookies allows the cookie the page needs and when you log off the website that the cookie needed, SDC destroys it, so it does not remain on your computer. Exceptions for cookies used for this website can remain on your computer and you can tell it which ones to keep and which ones to trash.
Install CCleaner, and have it clean after each browser session.
ABSOLUTELY!
I’ve been using “Duck Duck Go” for quite a while, and it’s every bit as good as Googly, without all the tracking, ads, etc.
Try it...you’ll like it.
Become Jeremiah Johnson.
Who is Jeremiah Johnson???
One of the manliest movies ever made, also the reason the Sundance Film Festival is where it is. He becomes a mountain man/ hermit, and coincidentally lives a life that would be completely untrackable by Google.
The way the cookies and other data move around it doesn’t matter. I use Chrome almost entirely for Facebook (it runs flash games better than anybody else) and Firefox for my browsing. I look up stuff on Amazon in FF and 10 minutes later the competition’s ads are showing up in Chrome.
It’s the post privacy world, we’re just generating data in it.
I use the AVAST browser and chrome. I dumped Firefox because it was just too buggy. Sad, because I was a very early adapter and sang its praises - at first.
“Can’t believe they get any money from all the pop up and ads. Who’s clicking on them? I’m certainly not.”
indeed. isn’t that the fricking truth!
almost NONE of the ads go to websites that have better deals than what the google search itself yields. i gave up years ago clicking google ads for that reason.
however, i think it’s possible that such ads DO help small businesses that offer an exceptional product or service in a LOCAL area IF the ad costs are properly controlled with a proper set of keywords and a proper geographical constraint.
i set up a simple website, simple SEO stuff, and a google ad campaign for a local propane bottle-filler who otherwise had zero web presence. After a couple of years I mentioned it was important to make sure his domain and web hosting accounts were kept renewed, and he was emphatic that no matter what, that they not be allowed to lapse. I took that to mean that all the work I did for him was quite successful.
“That being said, I’ve gotten to the point where I just buy everything online either through Amazon or Costco.”
LOL!
me too. though i do still buy groceries and heavy building materials locally.
Same here. I even use Amazon for tractor and rider mower parts.
How is this different from Dogpile.com?
What’s this about duck duck?
I’ve been assured several times
here that Google is a monopoly.
There’s another search engine?
Who let the ducks in?
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