LXer: "Do not track" - Mozilla advocates new data protection standard

LXer · 01-24-2011, 05:11 PM

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Online advertising networks use cookies to recognise internet users and serve them tailored advertising. Users can defend against this practice by deleting cookies, not accepting cookies, or setting an opt-out cookie, which declares that they do not want their online activity to be tracked.

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Hangdog42 · 01-25-2011, 07:31 AM

While a nice idea in theory, anything that requires cooperation from the advertising agency is doomed to fail. Noscript and adblock are staying firmly entrenched in my browser.

easuter · 01-25-2011, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Hangdog42

While a nice idea in theory, anything that requires cooperation from the advertising agency is doomed to fail. Noscript and adblock are staying firmly entrenched in my browser.

+1.

Whenever I have to use a browser that doesn't have at the very least AdBlock installed, the first thought that crosses my mind is "who the hell stole my Internets and replaced it with this sea of useless gaudy animated billboards?!".

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-25-2011, 12:19 PM

I also set it to delete all cookies (and everything else) on exit, and to copy back in a cookies file that has my login info for this forum on startup. There's also the usual adblock, noscript, greasemonkey, etc.