Lots of ways you can get tracked, from IP address to cookies, to running scripts in your browser to get a “fingerprint” Lots of ways to try to limit this.
Google “how advertisers track you” (or maybe using www.DuckDuckGo.com<http://www.DuckDuckGo.com> might be more apropos) From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:40 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: [OT] Ad tracking and security Folks, this would normally be a Friday topic, but can someone explain how this is possible? ... Last week my wife purchased some clothes online from 'Tread Store'. This morning I was at her PC searching in IE for some technical answers and I followed a link to Experts Exchange. In the discussion there I see a large flashing banner ad for Tread Store. I deleted a handful of suspicious cookies, cleared the cache and went back to the page and the ads are still there. How the friggin' hell are they doing this? Is it simply by our IP address? If so, then there's not much I can do to stop this tracking without using a VPN or Tor browsing. This data collection creep is a serious worry. We order clothes, food, music, books and PC consumables online, so I presume it's all recorded. I also presume that as subscribers to The Age newspaper they are tracking every click we make. YouTube also records every video you watch. From this information you can produce a pretty good profile of someone you've never met. Some of us also voted online ... worried!? Greg K
