Don,<br><br>Thanks for the hints. After telling my family and friends to always remember that anything we enter into our computers is like a postcard, available to all who want to read it for the rest of time. Since all of us are human, this is a good time to straighten out the messes we've caused. <br>
<br>Margaret<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Don Marti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmarti@zgp.org">dmarti@zgp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
begin Rick Moen quotation of Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:04:31AM -0800:<br>
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> You should note that Google takes measures to do tracking (or targeted<br>
> marketing, as the concepts are related and poorly distinguishable) of<br>
> both logged-in and not logged in users even if they have 'Web History'<br>
> disabled, so, if you don't care to have Google be able to correlate data<br>
> from a lot of places, you shouldn't stop with mere disabling that one<br>
> particularly egregious example. (EFF's article notes the extent of<br>
> default data-mining they do.)<br>
<br>
</div>My new favorite Firefox extension is Request Policy:<br>
<a href="https://www.requestpolicy.com/" target="_blank">https://www.requestpolicy.com/</a><br>
<br>
It does the closest thing I've seen to correcting<br>
an unfortunate misfeature in how web browsers handle<br>
third-party images and scripts on pages.<br>
<a href="http://zgp.org/%7Edmarti/freedom/framing-privacy/" target="_blank">http://zgp.org/~dmarti/freedom/framing-privacy/</a><br>
<br>
One other interesting piece of Google news is that<br>
Google plans to honor "Do Not Track" headers sent<br>
from the browser.<br>
<a href="http://zgp.org/%7Edmarti/www/google-you-know-me-down-with-dnt/" target="_blank">http://zgp.org/~dmarti/www/google-you-know-me-down-with-dnt/</a><br>
<br>
I'm not going to disable Request Policy any time soon,<br>
but it's important to see that Google management is<br>
starting to realize that ☞ increasing creepiness of<br>
tracking does not correlate to increasing ad revenue ☜.<br>
<br>
Bonus link -- Slade Cutter gives examples of the<br>
creepiest practices here:<br>
<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/22/the-7-creep-factors-of-online-behavioral-advertising/" target="_blank">http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/22/the-7-creep-factors-of-online-behavioral-advertising/</a><br>
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--<br>
Don Marti<br>
<a href="http://zgp.org/%7Edmarti/" target="_blank">http://zgp.org/~dmarti/</a><br>
<a href="mailto:dmarti@zgp.org">dmarti@zgp.org</a><br>
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