Most pages you visit send your data to googleanalytics. That is why I have blocked these cookies: ssl and www of this webaddress. I found the next embedded code on a website I visited and I think it tracks me through various accounts. Look for your item ID and put the javascript in your prefs folder of your browser and with the lines attached at the end of the code it is ensured that all will be sent to google:
<script xsrc=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin/js” mce_src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin/js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
_uacct= "UA-1392764-5"; urchinTracker ();
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/
javascript"></script>
_uacct= "UA-1392764-5"; urchinTracker ();
if (typeof(urchinTracker) == "function") urchinTracker();
_uff = false; // Reset for second account
_uacct = "UA-1392764-5";
if (typeof(urchinTracker) == "function") urchinTracker();
_uacct= "UA-1392764-5";
__utmSetTrans();
_uff = 0; // Reset for second account
_uacct = _uacct= "UA-1392764-5";
__utmSetTrans();
</script>
Isn’t this a beauty of a tracking code, and what do the webforum users think of it. The reset can go on for various accounts, say six?
Yes the developer of ABP has thought about people like you, and you can SUBSCRIBE to the lists you like to have. And drhayden1 you can find this posting here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28568.0
Also I advise you to install the Firefox locationbar2 add-on to be favicon secure like with FF 3.0 (you can manually restore the favicons in the URL bar, if you cannot live without them, they stay on the tabs anyway), I mentioned that consideration here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28656.0
It is not that loosing a bit of privacy is a problem, the tracking and profiling goes on all the time. But it is my opinion that the browser user does not need to be fully transparent, because it is a security risk, the data are not only collected by the good, but also by the bad and the ugly. The driving force behind malware and malicious script now is money, malcreants are no longer involved just for the laurels and fun. So we have to find a balance between the parties that want to Big Brother us as far as they can, and that is already way too far, and the little protection we still can bring up to block their aims.
While people are not the same, and you might like the full transparent schemes of our-days, you can put
the code I gave embedded in your web pages. Know beforehand that we (Tech and polonus have blocked this aspect of your page). If you want to know what other people are into adblocking, you can volunteer for this survey here ( http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22701 ), but these people are not particularly popular in democracy circles.
On the other hand if people would block certain tracking methods FFOS browsers like Firefox would no longer exist, because everyone that click in that browser with Google brings them money. That is OK with me, not so when they attach personal info to tracking cookies like Doubleclick did, and wasn’t this notorious firm acquired by Google recently? Tracking is OK, but when you have no influence on the personal tracking profile they build for you, that is just a bit over the top. But Bob it could well be within a couple of years that privacy is forbidden, and then we have to go with the flow. Anyways I know you only mean good, Bob!
That is why I added the last line to my posting. It is just about the grey zone there, Bob. When profilers, the big commercial boys, go and stick the profiles to a name or ID, and make some 60 bucks for a complete annual track record, we should be protected against certain aspects of that. But there is no protection at all, only the things you do yourself. To-day we find ourselves in a situation where the big corporations can do anything they fancy unhindered, and on the other hand the possibilities of the user is ever further limited, “we” are being regulated not those that want to take our money. If you compare the situation we have now, and that of ten years ago, and ponder over that a bit, you sure know what I mean to say.
