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Iczer
@wideopenwest.com
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Re: WOW tracking connection to Google!!
Yup, they're tracking us, and injecting tracking cookies/altering web sites using NebuAD:
»www1.wowway.com/wow/wow.aspx?Con···ermID=11
Look under the "Third Party Advertisers" section. (newly revised as of January, 2008!)
This really ticks me off. They're altering websites I go to, slowing down my internet browsing experience, and I'm getting absolutely nothing in return. Are my rates going to be lower now that WOW is making money off of my browsing history? Right...
Time to spread the word about this. | |
Iczer
@wideopenwest.com
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Confirmed, and infuriated. 
It sure looks like WOW has silently agreed to allow NebuAD to track all of us, without our knowledge or consent (unless someone from WOW can point out some update to the terms of service, which would still tick me off big time, regardless!)
It took me a bunch of times hitting www.google.com, but sometimes it would try to set a cookie from:
a.faireagle.com (which apparently is a tracking cookie from NebuAD - see »OptOut creates cookies with faireagle name)
And then one time, "luckily", hitting google got me cookies from:
a.faireagle.com and
nebuad.adjuggler.com
I've read articles about this company, and learned about the insidious (IMHO) way they insert their tracking cookies into pages by working with Internet Service Providers (WOW, in our case) who agree to place NebuAD's network devices on their network. It sure looks like WOW's a willing accomplice, working with NebuAD, and making money off of selling my privacy to them. I hope I'm wrong, but that's sure what it looks like to me.
See: »Ask DSLReports.com: What Is NebuAD?
and
»ISPs Make a Tidy Profit Selling Your Browsing History
I want nothing to do with an ISP that's willing to sell out my privacy without so much as a warning, and allowing a tracking company to alter the content of whatever website they choose, in this case, Google. Hmm...I wonder how Google feels about that? I think they should be informed...
In my mind, this is spyware, and instead of infecting my machine, these "hackers" have now infected my ISP.
Please, prove me wrong, Wide Open West. | |
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