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A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites and found them filled with trackers from major tech fir
Breitbart ^ | 7/18/2019 | LUCAS NOLAN

Posted on 07/18/2019 10:30:14 PM PDT by bitt

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A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites and found them filled with trackers from major tech firms, including Google and Facebook.
1 posted on 07/18/2019 10:30:14 PM PDT by bitt
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ping!!!!!!! Don’t be evil, huh?????/


2 posted on 07/18/2019 10:31:05 PM PDT by bitt (US intel is there to protect the safety and security of Americans. It is not a political tool.)
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Who approved the funding for that study?


3 posted on 07/18/2019 10:42:20 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Oh noes.


4 posted on 07/18/2019 10:45:57 PM PDT by humblegunner
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tech firms such as Facebook, Google, and Oracle

What a shocker.........................

5 posted on 07/18/2019 10:46:01 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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If those folks depended on income from folks like me, they’d be belly up within a few short weeks.


6 posted on 07/18/2019 10:57:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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95% of all websites on the whole world internet have trackers from Google (Including this one-— Yes, Free Republic has a Google tracker on every page.) Many websites have not only several Google related trackers, but also trackers for Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc.

And people are surprised that porno sites have them?


7 posted on 07/18/2019 11:12:17 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Big Brother wannabes are watching you.


8 posted on 07/18/2019 11:13:27 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Well then my first, middle and last name is evil because I’ve looked at porn a trillion times since the 90s until I recently got close to my 50s (now 51) and lost most interest.

You all are holier and more moral than me!!

I can live with that pretty easily :)

But I’ll go to confession anyway. I try to make it every 10 years. There for 2 hours!!


9 posted on 07/18/2019 11:16:25 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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I lost interest in porn after my first marriage. Funny thing is, the sex during my second marriage was better than my first and all the freaky shack-ups combined. I think I ran my gas tank too dry too fast. Pity.


10 posted on 07/18/2019 11:23:31 PM PDT by Viking2002
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“So, students, we want you to visit as many porn sites as possible as part of our research.

Why are you snickering?”


11 posted on 07/19/2019 1:37:45 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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That’s funny!
I recall a few years back the SEC found widespread porn viewing by their workers. I’m sure that many government agencies are rife with porn viewing.


12 posted on 07/19/2019 2:05:00 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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Why would this be a surprise?

Plenty of non-porn sites are riddled with trackers too.

Example:

cnn.com has 25 trackers according to Ghostery


13 posted on 07/19/2019 2:09:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites

Seems like a seemy type of work. I'm guessing eye bleach was probably used hourly by most of the " researchers".

14 posted on 07/19/2019 3:34:29 AM PDT by Ikeon (Are you going to flap your lips until I die of boredom or are you gonna shoot me?)
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“Trackers” are mostly innocuous. Google analytics is a powerful tool that tells you where people are from geographically, when they visited your site, for how long, and who referred them.

They don’t have access to your personal data, unless you enter it into the site. The worst thing they know is your IP address.


15 posted on 07/19/2019 4:23:07 AM PDT by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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Such personal narratives as yours are better left to your support groups.


16 posted on 07/19/2019 4:26:20 AM PDT by LouAvul
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Not too long ago I ‘stumbled’ into a girlie site. Almost immediately this official-looking notice appeared in the middle of my screen saying my computer was infected (i.e., hijacked). It let me close the message, but then popped up immediately. It told me not to shut off the computer and that I must call a particular phone number.

I would then close the browser completely, the only way possible, using Task Manager (the pop-up blocked out all other means), but when I reopened the browser, it would immediately go to that page, with that message. After trying about 5 times to close the page before the message could appear, and losing each time, I would up uninstalling the browser, and then re-installing it. That worked, thankfully. I knew I was being BS’d because the problem only affected one browser (I keep 7 different browsers on my computer, for various reasons), but still, it was impressive code, the way it immediately took over the browser the moment that I opened it - probably fools a lot of people.


17 posted on 07/19/2019 5:02:34 AM PDT by BobL (yI eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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aka NSA


18 posted on 07/19/2019 5:03:46 AM PDT by bgill
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The study scanned the sites in March of 2018 and found that 74 percent of trackers came from Google or its subsidiaries, 24 percent came from Oracle and 10 percent came from Facebook.

uhmm...anyone see anything wrong with that sentence?

19 posted on 07/19/2019 5:31:09 AM PDT by nitzy
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That’s a great Dilbert cartoon!


20 posted on 07/19/2019 5:47:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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