Comments on: Protect your privacy from Google AdSense’s new behavioral ads

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:33:41 +0000

‘Ad Preference Manager’ expects cookies to be enabled, else it won’t even start.
the ‘Opt-Out’ by google is for “Firefox Version 1.5+” while there are countless versions not working on that core anymore.

nice idea, but not very convincing, especially if these things are created by the ones who created the trackers.

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By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:02:24 +0000

I smell spam. How is using a VPN going to protect you from cookies?

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:10 +0000

I use Ace VPN to protect my privacy. Costs me $5 per month but atleast I know the web sites cannot keep track of me. You can use any VPN but make sure they dont keep logs about your activities.

http://www.acevpn.com

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By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:59:32 +0000

Jim great site, have written an article about them today.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:18:18 +0000

They don’t have a plug in (yet), but at this site you can click once and be opted out of ALL of the ad networks (not just Google).

http://www.privacychoice.net

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:08:54 +0000

EDIT : read more about it here : http://www.dubfire.net/opt-out/

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:03:13 +0000

For Firefox, there is also the alternative of an extension (experimental) called ‘Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out’ ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11073 ), which states that it “is based on Google’s Advertising Cookie Opt-out Plugin, but has been modified to include the opt out cookies for a number of other advertising companies.”

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:49:43 +0000

Who cares? Web is already equipped with Google Analytics (for years), not even mentioning dozens of other analytics services and tons of outright spyware (that doesn’t even pretend to be good).

Want privacy – cancel your Internet connection. Because it is long gone online and not coming back.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:22:12 +0000

Well as I have stated else ware, Firefox+ad block+no script= no worries! I have not seen an ad in sometime, and do not plan on allowing any! I have everything with Google-whatever.com marked as untrusted with no-scripts, so I have no problems what so ever with ad bombardment.

By: Xmetalfanx

Xmetalfanx — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:23:30 +0000

For Firefox users …you may want to
try this add-on

http://www.customizegoogle.com/

By: G Thompson

G Thompson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:10:33 +0000

Interestingly they haven’t considered other country laws other than the USA. Most specifically the EU and Australian Privacy laws that state that the selection of OPT-IN and NOT OPT-OUT for these systems is wrongful and not in the interests of the users privacy. ie: To make the user perform multiple steps (if they even know those steps exist) to opt-out is a civil offense and in some cases a criminal offense.

Though this might not bother Google so much, it has a vicarious liability component on the advertisers who use this system and reside in those areas where the law is enacted.

Personally I have a cynical view of a company who has made opt-in mandatory and then to opt out you have to download/enable a plugin onto your system. What else does the plugin do??? ~hmmmmmm~

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:27:27 +0000

EFF has a bizarre discussion about opt-in opt out cookie clearing. as this post sort-of points out, just don’t accept cookies period and this will not be a problem. If there is a website on which you need to accept cookies add an exception for that website. I guess if you are a gmail user this is more of a problem, but it still seems like people need to put a higher premium on privacy and we also need laws which prevent the sort of tracking google does.

By: Rick (not the same Rick as above)

Rick (not the same Rick as above) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:29:30 +0000

What about Opera users?

How does the browsing history cookie described above relate to google search history? http://www.google.com/history

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By: Paul(us).

Paul(us). — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:52:19 +0000

Joe not Martin.

By: Paul(us).

Paul(us). — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:51:33 +0000

To speak in Orson Welles therms adsense/The War of the Worlds/Citizen Kane in cooperation with Google/big brother is watching you. I personly say/write nice application and, again, a good find Martin.