Tracking cookies and data mining

[fool4apc]

Ever notice how Yahoo Mail will quickly move the "sign out" button when you are trying to sign out and hide it under their relentless graphics created to get your cell phone number? Over and over Yahoo Mail tries to get my cell phone number. They never will. Two things are going on here. Yahoo is trying to get my cell phone number and Yahoo does not want me to sign out so they can use data mining cookies to track my every move on the internet. Ever notice how you search for something on Google and you see it splashed across the screen on Amazon? For example, I search on Google for a Cuban buggy whip and then later in the day when I sign in to Amazon there are graphics showing sales on Cuban buggy whips. They are watching me and I don't like it. I don't. :ninja:

 

[ViviTheMage]

welcome to cookies?

 

[Train]

Some of those cross-site tracking tools (like the ones who show you products you recently searched for) are not cookie based at all.

They can be IP based, browser tag based (surprisingly unique) or a combination of those and other factors that can still work even with cookies disabled.