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Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - DaveEdin - 05-07-2019
Lots of people, as it turns out...
Check it out:
http://collusion.toolness.org/
Even I was a bit surprised at how much tracking there is, and I knew this kind of thing happens...
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - Sparkystav - 05-07-2019
im not sure i understand it,
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - Phil01 - 05-07-2019
same stav,
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - DaveEdin - 05-07-2019
Essentially, you visit the sites it shows in grey, but in doing so you gather the cookies from the various red sites it shows you. Those red sites effectively build a profile of you from the sites you visit via the cookies on your machine...
In the end the profile built is used for targeted adverts and marketing by these red sites. As per the demo, you visit only a few sites but end up supplying some information to many you didn't even know about...
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - sprinter2012 - 05-07-2019
The general message is...pretty much every site you visit stores tracking cookies on your computer that follow what you do and can link them selves with the same cookes on other sites to see if you visit a particular group of website frequently e.g. if you visit autotrader, then pistonheads, then ebay motors. It knows your a car person, and advertisments will pop up to advertise...you guessed it, cars!
So clear out your cookies regularly is the moral of the story
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - sprinter2012 - 05-07-2019
Looks like Dave beat me to it. lol
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - DaveEdin - 05-07-2019
A useful moral, sprinter...
My browser is set to delete cookies every time I close it...
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - sprinter2012 - 05-07-2019
My internet security program does 'idle time scans' for things like tracking cookies, so probably does it at least once everytime I use my laptop.
I also use a fantastic bit of software called Advance Sytem Care which does a 'computer health check', gets rid of old registry files etc. and just generally speeds things up
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - Moley - 05-07-2019
DaveEdin A useful moral, sprinter...
My browser is set to delete cookies every time I close it...
^^^^^^^^^
How do you do that Dave ??:blushing:
Who's watching what you get up to on the net then? - ormi - 05-07-2019
wondered how the wife knew what sites i looked at.........lol...