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Political microtargeting April 11, 2012 10:33 am TB

Here.

Anybody who spends a lot of time looking at ads coughed up by webpages knows how this works. The defenses against this kind of tracking are not simple, they take time, and are not perfect.

Good starter rule of thumb: deny any website access to your Facebook data. An amazing number of places ask for this to look at games, to comment on news articles, or other things.

The charts in that news article are interesting, and probably worth a study on their own. Still looking through them, but I see some missing options. For example, websites should have included major blogs.

  • I don't use any myself, (except the Zone) but I fear that in the future you may have to use ... by ER 2012-04-11 19:52:04
    • I still like paper bills, in the mail. by TB 2012-04-11 22:00:02
      • A couple of other examples of "the old ways are still good:" I have an old touch-tone phone in the house. ... by TB 2012-04-12 08:54:01
        • I used to have a friend whose grandmother was from a little village in the old country (Italy) and she ... by ER 2012-04-12 03:37:16
          • Yipes. I've never run into anyone like that Italian lady. by TB 2012-04-12 07:56:34
            • Probably watching the porn that code square brings up XD by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-12 14:20:09
        • You might want to sit down for this... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-11 21:46:35
          • Should be below VRB's post. by ER 2012-04-11 19:55:59
          • Even better rule of thumb: Don't use social networking sites in general. To me, they're nothing more than ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-04-11 19:32:44
            • Another reason to avoid social media. http://blog.zonealarm.com/2012/03/employers-requesting-usernames-and-passwords.html You knew it was only a matter of time before they started taking advantage of ... by ER 2012-04-13 10:38:35

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