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How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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One thing this shows is just how powerful Facebook could become/already is. When they connect the dots online and offline of billion user's buying information and habits they essentially can electronically understand who you are better than you do, and can predict what you'll do even better. Just food for thought.

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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post #2

One thing this shows is just how powerful Facebook could become/already is. When they connect the dots online and offline of billion user's buying information and habits they essentially can electronically understand who you are better than you do, and can predict what you'll do even better. Just food for thought.

Oh I'm sure governments around the world have been thinking quite hard about that.

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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I highly recommend Ghostery. I've been using it for quite a while now and have no complaints.

Agree, ghostery is the first thing I install (Safari/Chrome -- don't use Firefox). Only issue, a couple of banking sites I use don't play well with it. On those occasions, pause, reload, do action, reenable ghostery. I only wish Pause was on a per-tab basis.

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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post #3
post #2

One thing this shows is just how powerful Facebook could become/already is. When they connect the dots online and offline of billion user's buying information and habits they essentially can electronically understand who you are better than you do, and can predict what you'll do even better. Just food for thought.

Oh I'm sure governments around the world have been thinking quite hard about that.

Which is why online privacy protection laws are so important for legislatures to pass.

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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post #2

One thing this shows is just how powerful Facebook could become/already is. When they connect the dots online and offline of billion user's buying information and habits they essentially can electronically understand who you are better than you do, and can predict what you'll do even better. Just food for thought.

When Facebook connects the dots online and offline of billion users' buying information and habits, they essentially can electronically understand who you are better than you do, and can predict what you'll do even better.

Why are people disturbed by this?

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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I highly recommend Ghostery. I've been using it for quite a while now and have no complaints.

Likewise.

I have found that I don't need both Ghostery and an ad blocker - simply having Ghostery block the trackers will block the vast majority of ads, and the ones that don't get blocked are inoffensive and/or actually interesting.

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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post #5

I highly recommend Ghostery. I've been using it for quite a while now and have no complaints.

Agree, ghostery is the first thing I install (Safari/Chrome -- don't use Firefox). Only issue, a couple of banking sites I use don't play well with it. On those occasions, pause, reload, do action, reenable ghostery. I only wish Pause was on a per-tab basis.

You can whitelist websites in the main preferences, it's a tab in the "trackers" section.

Re: How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

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post #5

I highly recommend Ghostery. I've been using it for quite a while now and have no complaints.

Agree, ghostery is the first thing I install (Safari/Chrome -- don't use Firefox). Only issue, a couple of banking sites I use don't play well with it. On those occasions, pause, reload, do action, reenable ghostery. I only wish Pause was on a per-tab basis.

You can disable specific trackers on specific sites - e.g. unblock Google Analytics on your banking site, or Disqus on a favourite blog, rather than having to temporarily disable the whole extension browser-wide.
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