Amid NSA Outrage, Big Tech Companies Plan to Track You Even More Aggressively

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/private-tracking-arms-race

 

[lxskllr]

Good reason to use libre software, and push for libre hardware.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Libre? The MS Office alternative?

 

[Dr. Canny]

It seems as if the Big Businesses of America are in a race to see who can create the best tracking software. It's almost scary how directed the ads are becoming on specific websites. A website might have an ad directed towards a search of a product I made one time 3 months ago. That's quite unsettling.

 

[seepy83]

Libre? The MS Office alternative?

He's talking about Libre software as in "free" software. But not just the "free" that means "zero cost"...Libre Software basically means it's free to use and it's open source and you're free to modify the code for whatever purposes you might have.