Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam (2016)

Post by farnsworth » Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 1:30 AM UTC

glandium wrote: post #21

saberworks wrote: post #5

Probably more evil than the practice described in the article is at the very end. In order to get them to stop, or not start in the first place, you have to give them your email address. So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. No thanks. The real answer is a very strict ad blocker. On all your devices. Every time you browse. The only way to keep your personal information safe is t…

> So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. "Fun" fact: I register on sites with addresses like "address-suffix@domain", with a different suffix for different sites. I won't name names, but I now receive viagra-level spam to several of them, which reasonable people would expect to be able to trust. haveibeenpwned.com confirms that one of them, off the top of my head, was part of a b…

Post by shakna » Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 1:39 AM UTC

glandium wrote: post #21

saberworks wrote: post #5

Probably more evil than the practice described in the article is at the very end. In order to get them to stop, or not start in the first place, you have to give them your email address. So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. No thanks. The real answer is a very strict ad blocker. On all your devices. Every time you browse. The only way to keep your personal information safe is t…

> So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. "Fun" fact: I register on sites with addresses like "address-suffix@domain", with a different suffix for different sites. I won't name names, but I now receive viagra-level spam to several of them, which reasonable people would expect to be able to trust. haveibeenpwned.com confirms that one of them, off the top of my head, was part of a b…

Post by mirimir » Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 1:47 AM UTC

laughinghan wrote: post #12

> They are able to do this because sears.com loads Criteo code and uses a criteo.com cookie > there may not be much you can do about this besides blocking cookies Most browsers let you block 3rd-party cookies without blocking all cookies (in this case, blocking the the criteo.com cookie but not the sears.com cookie, when on sears.com): https://www.maketecheasier.com/disable-third-party-cookies-c...

Post by Macha » Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 1:51 AM UTC

farnsworth wrote: post #22

glandium wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So you have to trust them with the very thing you want them to stop abusing. "Fun" fact: I register on sites with addresses like "address-suffix@domain", with a different suffix for different sites. I won't name names, but I now receive viagra-level spam to several of them, which reasonable people would expect to be able to trust. haveibeenpwned.com confirms that one of them, off the top of my head, was part of a b…

Why not name names? Let's name and shame companies that are either selling your info or hiding breaches.

Post by vermontdevil » Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 1:53 AM UTC

shiift wrote: post #29

vermontdevil wrote: post #9

Amazon seems to be annoying in this area. I look at a product out of curiosity. Get stuck seeing the same product ads for days everywhere including FB, etc. and yes I use Ublock, Ghostery etc.

Amazon uses your Amazon history to target Amazon ads to your interests. That's not the same thing as giving your Amazon account information to a third party.