Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 2:25pm

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Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353942,00.asp

I say spyware. I've gone overboard on my cookie settings and my adblocker has taken on a life of its own, waving a swastika every now and then every time I load a page. A few of them cross the line though, I don't consider it "permission" to track what I do just by connecting to your page. If I register or contribute, then by all means show me your privacy policy.

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 6:32pm

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

One of the many reasons why I don't use gmail, the so called "targeted advertising", aah yeah right

I will not use anything that tracks my behavior, they can kiss my ass.

Kiss my ass

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Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:36am

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

I just use Adblock Plus, stops all ads in their tracks no problem and NoScript stops whatever I miss with Adblock. Result: Pretty much no ads get through.

Once they stop tracking, I'll loosen up my settings a little.

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Sun, 10/11/2009 - 6:08pm

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

"One of the many reasons why I don't use gmail, the so called "targeted advertising", aah yeah right "

Holy crap I never even realized that... well goddammit I love Gmail... now what am I going to do. :S

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:19pm

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

Well, nothing of that sort is happened to me and I am least bother what its all up to. Lets see.

Tue, 04/05/2011 - 8:24am

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

Aries wrote:

I just use Adblock Plus, stops all ads in their tracks no problem and NoScript stops whatever I miss with Adblock. Result: Pretty much no ads get through.
Once they stop tracking, I'll loosen up my settings a little.

How does AdBlock Plus get along with Spy Bot?

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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 8:32am

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

firecapt1305 wrote:

Aries wrote:
I just use Adblock Plus, stops all ads in their tracks no problem and NoScript stops whatever I miss with Adblock. Result: Pretty much no ads get through. Once they stop tracking, I'll loosen up my settings a little.

How does AdBlock Plus get along with Spy Bot?

It actually gets along rather well. Good combo is adblocker and Spybot S&D, in all reality is a must IMO

As I mentioned in another post I've been running Win 7 on my laptop and have had to look around for a good adblocker for IE9. I tested and pulled the trigger on Ad Muncher, I like it, like it alot. No it's not free but it honestly does the best job of any ad blocker I've found. You install it and it covers all browsers installed. So I'm no longer running Spybot and adblock, Ad Muncher does a great job, it's not free but you get what you pay for.

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Thu, 04/07/2011 - 5:59pm

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

Thanks for the tip. I am getting ready to upgrade my primary to Win 7. I'll check it out.

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Thu, 04/07/2011 - 7:43pm

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Re: Congress to decide if tracking ads are teasers, or spyware

Boanerges wrote:

Thanks for the tip. I am getting ready to upgrade my primary to Win 7. I'll check it out.

Win7 isn't bad, not bad at all. But if if you do go check out ad muncher ....

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