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The entire movement is pissing against the wind. Tracking is how these companies make money. This is their motivation system. A "low" of current online physics is "tracking makes money".
As such, it's a waste of energy. Change physics first.
The Do Not Track movement says Do Not Make Money. The entire movement is pissing against the wind. Tracking is how these companies make money. This is their motivation system. A "low" of current online physics is "tracking makes money". As such, it's a waste of energy. Change physics first.
Someone should make a plugin that actively sends facebook false tracking information along with your own.
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Do you wear an ID around your neck? Do you walk into an establishment, introduce yourself, tell the keeper where you came from, when was the last time you visited, check in with an inter-business tracking device, and then ask them to forget all that? This is what a browser with (or more appropriately, on) DNT is doing. Long way from camouflage. And offline, we should also employ techniques like randomizing MAC addres…
> Do you wear an ID around your neck? Do you walk into an establishment, introduce yourself, tell the keeper where you came from, when was the last time you visited, check in with an inter-business tracking device, and then ask them to forget all that? Don't worry, there's a startup that's "fixing" that[0]. Nomi uses the MAC address of your phone to identify the brick-and-mortar venues you visit. It's opt- out for co…
Go to ad block settings. Add a custom one, give it any title you want. Put this in for the URL:
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt
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I also walk around town completely uncamouflaged, voluntarily displaying my uniquely identifiable face and whatnot, and yet somehow most businesses can still restrain themselves and do not follow me around, colluding to enable each other to videotape my every step for analytics purpose. Sure, there's some technical steps that can be taken but there's also a social or cultural dimension to what behavior is popularly a…
Do you wear an ID around your neck? Do you walk into an establishment, introduce yourself, tell the keeper where you came from, when was the last time you visited, check in with an inter-business tracking device, and then ask them to forget all that? This is what a browser with (or more appropriately, on) DNT is doing. Long way from camouflage. And offline, we should also employ techniques like randomizing MAC addres…
The Do Not Track movement says Do Not Make Money. The entire movement is pissing against the wind. Tracking is how these companies make money. This is their motivation system. A "low" of current online physics is "tracking makes money". As such, it's a waste of energy. Change physics first.
That's what this fixes. By pushing back against tracking, we will force websites to use other ways to make money.
AdBlock Plus once blocked Google ads, till Google decided to pay them [0] to "whitelist" their ads by default. The cynical part of me sees this as a precursor for AdBlock to sign a deal with Facebook and let their ads/tracking through too, for a price of course. [0] http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-go...
If you want to disable the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising", that option is available.
I take it Ghostery takes care of it as well. Does anybody know?
This doesn't seem like anything new, just a reaction to the news that Facebook is going to expand what they do with the data they collect.
(I'm a Ghostery developer)