Collusion - who's tracking your web movements?

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Collusion - who's tracking your web movements?

Post#1 by brokenman » 29 Feb 2012, 17:57

Transparency is good. Apps that track your habits and movements (without consent) while on the internet are bad. We should at least have the 'option' of allowing trackers or disabling them.

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Re: Collusion - who's tracking your web movements?

Post#2 by Hamza » 29 Feb 2012, 18:03

Yeah, Google is using this to display "interesting" ads but it uses Cookies for this. If you are searching about a cheap computer. Some minutes/seconds after you will get some ads about cheap computers at right of search result on Google.
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