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Google is now Big Brother....

Gibson486

Gibson486

Lifer
I have an excel sheet full of names for a wedding list. I emailed it to my fiancee through gmail. I go into Linkedin today, It is suggesting that I now connect to people who are on my wedding list. WTF...talk about big brother. I'd understand if it was email addresses on my contact list, but not names and addresses from an excel sheet attachment....

**tin foil hat**
 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

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How does LinkedIn get the info from Google? Does Google really go that far for selling info? I find that a bit strange. Any links with more info on this?
 
I've seen some pretty crazy stuff myself. They have access to more than we think and use it.

I rented a jackhammer at Home Depot once. No joke, I then started seeing Google ads on all the sites I visited about tool rentals. WTF? Now guess in this case it's Google buying info from the credit card company, or perhaps the store itself? But it's no coincidence that I rent a tool and start seeing ads about rentals not long after. Kinda creepy. I have seen similar situations like this before where a IRL action triggers certain ads.

While this technological world has it's positives, one negative of it is we do not have any privacy. I guess it's not bad if you have nothing to hide. All our moves are tracked through money transactions, web transactions etc...

One reason I run my own email server though, at least I have full control over who reads them. Well, sorta, if I send it to an untrusted server then I guess I don't have control from that point.
 
Only just now?

You mean you're only just now noticing?

I noticed a while ago, I for welcome our new blah blah
 
Red Squirrel said:
I've seen some pretty crazy stuff myself. They have access to more than we think and use it.

I rented a jackhammer at Home Depot once. No joke, I then started seeing Google ads on all the sites I visited about tool rentals. WTF? Now guess in this case it's Google buying info from the credit card company, or perhaps the store itself? But it's no coincidence that I rent a tool and start seeing ads about rentals not long after. Kinda creepy. I have seen similar situations like this before where a IRL action triggers certain ads.

While this technological world has it's positives, one negative of it is we do not have any privacy. I guess it's not bad if you have nothing to hide. All our moves are tracked through money transactions, web transactions etc...

One reason I run my own email server though, at least I have full control over who reads them. Well, sorta, if I send it to an untrusted server then I guess I don't have control from that point.
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Did you look it up online? If so that's where it got the idea you needed a jackhammer. If you clear your cookies, it (and other personalized ads) should go kerpoof. Maybe. There are specific cookies you can delete to affect certain ad networks. I'm to lazy to look it up right now, but there is a webapp you cna use that will delete the advert cookies and then put the opt-out cookie (for those that have them) into your browser.

How these adverts work is they log cookies in your browser. So if you visit site1.com, site2.com and site3.com (who are all part of an ad network), they all drop a cookie in your browser that says you've been there. When you visit site 4, the ad program on it looks at the cookies and runs them through an algorithm, which then determines the ad you are displayed.
 
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Kreon said:
Did you look it up online? If so that's where it got the idea you needed a jackhammer. If you clear your cookies, it (and other personalized ads) should go kerpoof. Maybe. There are specific cookies you can delete to affect certain ad networks. I'm to lazy to look it up right now, but there is a webapp you cna use that will delete the advert cookies and then put the opt-out cookie (for those that have them) into your browser.
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And then theres Nasus which makes Google look a hit counter
 
Kreon said:
Did you look it up online? If so that's where it got the idea you needed a jackhammer. If you clear your cookies, it (and other personalized ads) should go kerpoof. Maybe. There are specific cookies you can delete to affect certain ad networks. I'm to lazy to look it up right now, but there is a webapp you cna use that will delete the advert cookies and then put the opt-out cookie (for those that have them) into your browser.
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https://duckduckgo.com/
 
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:04:17 GMT
Server: Apache
Status: 200 OK
Set-Cookie: s9y_581763a1eedc842008889ecbf9bcbbba=4an8kel7e6t2129c1qn76if1k0; path=/; domain=anonymous-proxy-servers.net
Set-Cookie: s9y_581763a1eedc842008889ecbf9bcbbba=9osqo4j5lprg59n4vbugltaul3; path=/; domain=anonymous-proxy-servers.net
Expires: 0
Cache-Control: private, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Session-Reinit: true
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Were you refering to that?
 
LiuKangBakinPie said:
Were you refering to that?
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If that is text copied right out of when you view a cookie on your browser, then yes, something similar to that. When I view cookies in FF it doesn't look like that, but it seems to have a lot of the same types of information (to my eye).

http://www.techiesguide.com/delete-cookies.html
This link shows what it looks like in Firefox (and how to delete individual cookies). You can usually tell which ones are advertising because they usually says something like "tracking" somewhere in it.

EDIT: Here is an excellent article from Lifehacker about tracking cookies and the ad networks.
http://lifehacker.com/5767080/what-do-not-track-is-and-why-its-important

and another on cookies in general
http://lifehacker.com/5461114/fact-and-fiction-the-truth-about-browser-cookies
 
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Kreon said:
If that is text copied right out of when you view a cookie on your browser, then yes, something similar to that. When I view cookies in FF it doesn't look like that, but it seems to have a lot of the same types of information (to my eye).

http://www.techiesguide.com/delete-cookies.html
This link shows what it looks like in Firefox (and how to delete individual cookies). You can usually tell which ones are advertising because they usually says something like "tracking" somewhere in it.

EDIT: Here is an excellent article from Lifehacker about tracking cookies and the ad networks.
http://lifehacker.com/5767080/what-do-not-track-is-and-why-its-important

and another on cookies in general
http://lifehacker.com/5461114/fact-and-fiction-the-truth-about-browser-cookies
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That was a quick print out when I connected to this site. Used HTTP HEaders live Firefox extension. Tells you all the things sites want from you. Other one is Paros but that scope a site as well
 
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