 DrStrangeTechnically feasiblePremium
join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT
kudos:1 | I've been toying with them for a while now... I concur on 'creepy'. The Rockwell song from the '80s ['Somebody's Watching Me'] comes to mind.
When the Win7 beta came out, I decided I'd try an experiment: I didn't install all of the privacy software I normally run on my machines. It's amazing how specific some of the advertising has become.
My advice to those concerned by snooping advertisers: Create an online persona that they can track. Make it humdrum enough to bore them to tears. Once they've established your purchasing/browsing patterns [they think], do anything you don't want them tracking with privacy software, or privacy options in your browser, enabled [doesn't apply to law enforcement; they'll know what you're doing before you do unless you pay in person in small bills]. |
