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Re: Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

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Post by smoyer »

jharohit wrote: post #2

Just finished scanning - seems like 126 ad companies where tracking me for targetted ads! When I tried opting out, only 76 acknowledged. Just very very troubling..

I'm on a new machine and did limited browsing before installing uBlock and PrivacyBadger. Only 5 companies were tracking my browser (I didn't try opting out yet).

Edit - 3 of the 5 companies accepted my opt-out request.

Re: Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

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Post by Larrikin »

jharohit wrote: post #2

Just finished scanning - seems like 126 ad companies where tracking me for targetted ads! When I tried opting out, only 76 acknowledged. Just very very troubling..

I think the 126 is all companies participating in the program, not necessarily the ones that are actively tracking your browser. The second tab contains the companies tracking you. Luckily I only had 9 and was able to opt-out of all of them.

Re: Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

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Post by jharohit »

Larrikin wrote: post #4
jharohit wrote: post #2

Just finished scanning - seems like 126 ad companies where tracking me for targetted ads! When I tried opting out, only 76 acknowledged. Just very very troubling..

I think the 126 is all companies participating in the program, not necessarily the ones that are actively tracking your browser. The second tab contains the companies tracking you. Luckily I only had 9 and was able to opt-out of all of them.

technically yeah - but a lot of amongst the 126 were showing a status of "No status available" (or something along those lines). 126 seems like quite a low number for it to be the TOTAL number of participating companies - I could be wrong though..

Re: Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

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Post by dsr_ »

Privoxy raised a warning, not letting me go there without clicking through. So I did.

uBlock origin prevented the site from loading anything interesting, and Self-Destructing Cookies means it isn't leaving anything behind.

I think I'm fine, but how can I know for sure?

Re: Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

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Post by jharohit »

dsr_ wrote: post #7

Privoxy raised a warning, not letting me go there without clicking through. So I did. uBlock origin prevented the site from loading anything interesting, and Self-Destructing Cookies means it isn't leaving anything behind. I think I'm fine, but how can I know for sure?

Based on other comments, seems like uBlock does the trick somewhat. But to be sure - just uninstall both and then try again?

Re: Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies

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Post by salzig »

tomlong wrote: post #5

Gives me some confidence in uBlock & Privacy Badger... The first time I ran it there was 1 site tracking me (adbrain).. I adjusted my PB settings accordingly and got 0. It's a useful site for calibrating those tools! http://i.imgur.com/hdReODM.png

you may also consider to switch on: Settings -> Show advanced settings -> Privacy -> Content settings -> Block third-party cookies and site data.
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