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- Autodidaddict, on 03/17/2009, -1/+51I keep seeing ads for "male enhancement"
Clearly, something at google must be broken..... - Fhwqhgads, on 03/17/2009, -5/+47AdBlock Plus. Cookie/Script blocking.
Next.... - iknoritesrsly, on 03/17/2009, -2/+42Am I the only one that doesn't mind seeing advertisements that are actually applicable to my interests?
Of course I mean hypothetically, because I've been using ad block or privoxy for as long as I can remember... - NinjaBoy, on 03/17/2009, -3/+26I guess i'm the only one who likes targeted ads. As a 23 year old man(kid) I feel insulted when I get Viagra ads/spam. But on the other hand since I know ads are needed to keep the sites i use free, id love to see local bars and local business. Facebook displayed an ad to me once telling me a local pizza joint was have $2 pitcher night and I now frequent that pizza place.
- manergy, on 03/17/2009, -2/+22Somewhere in the Google offices.....
"Clearly, something in his pants must be broken...." - inactive, on 03/16/2009, -4/+21Funny. in order to opt out, it has to save a cookie.
Ironically, turn off 3rd party cookies (FF3) and nearly nothing can track you :P - RagingIce, on 03/17/2009, -2/+13I was gonna say 'in before adblock fanboys', but damn you guys are fast...
- Reveillark, on 03/17/2009, -0/+9a visit from Chris Hansen
- blankman, on 03/17/2009, -0/+8I'm glad you like them. It's people like you who let the rest of us block the ads and still keep the websites that rely on ads for revenue. Keep up the good work.
- Autodidaddict, on 03/17/2009, -3/+11You're missing out on all the ads promoting the new AdBlock!
- inactive, on 03/17/2009, -1/+9Call me crazy but if I'm going to see ads I'd rather them be targeted at things I might actually buy. I've never really understood what's so terrible about that...
- RonBurgundy76, on 03/17/2009, -2/+9Cry me a river. I get enough ads when I try to watch TV or when I step outside. Adblock at least helps keep me from being bombarded constantly with crappy ads while I'm online.
- Reveillark, on 03/17/2009, -1/+8I really don't understand why so many people are up in arms about Google knowing your search history. It's not like they're looking over your shoulder while you browse, or selling/giving you personal info to a 3rd party. I work for an internet marketing firm, and we couldn't give two ***** if you, as an individual, searched for sepia-toned images of women with asymmetrical breasts last Sunday. What marketers want is ACCURATE search volume data on a global or national scale.
- tehmarko, on 03/17/2009, -0/+7Rope, chloroform and van accessories.
- shibagarden, on 03/17/2009, -0/+6Usually man(kid)s aren't too picky about their brew.
- ngonzales80, on 03/17/2009, -1/+7I'm opting in. I like the products Google provides for me at a very low price (FREE) and would like to help them maintain their ability to provide these products. If there's anything I don't want them to track, I'll switch to incognito or use FireFox.
If nobody clicked on ads, Google wouldn't exist. - stacks14, on 03/17/2009, -1/+6@autodidaddit thats not what she said...
- verygoodyear, on 03/17/2009, -1/+5Definitely opting out, but at least Google is being pretty open about this.
Also, how to Opt Out permanently for Chrome and Safari.
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/brows ... - Autodidaddict, on 03/17/2009, -3/+7Crooked != Broken
- 350Zed, on 03/17/2009, -4/+8Let's all rely on a plug-in made by Google to block ads made by Google.
Ya... THAT makes sense. - SyntaxErrors, on 03/17/2009, -2/+6But, in essence, isn't using Google to keep Google for knowing everything about you... a bit... ironic itself? or more so, scary?
</1984-1984> <2009-1984 /> - NinjaBoy, on 03/17/2009, -0/+3It was natural light. But as shibagarden said, for $2 i wasn't picky.
- tgc1, on 03/17/2009, -0/+3DO NOT WANT!
- Fhwqhgads, on 03/17/2009, -2/+5They aren't gaining or losing any money one way or the other on people who don't look at or click their crap. Cry me a river.
They have gone way overboard with their flashing, annoying, obnoxious, distracting, animated ***** anyway. Enough is enough.
I don't watch TV for the same reason. Buy this car. Buy this. Buy that. We're the best. Save money with us. Sign up for this phone service. Call this lawyer. Swallow this pill. Piss away your life savings to this insurance company. SHUT THE ***** UP AND GET OFF MY ***** TV!
I wish adblock worked on my TV. I only watch movies and play games on it now. Might as well disconnect the cable.
/rant - JudgeDredd, on 03/17/2009, -1/+4Use the Taco. http://www.dubfire.net/opt-out/ It is for Google plus 26 other targeted advertising trackers.
- NJank, on 03/17/2009, -1/+3my iGoogle link worked fine. do you have the RSS feed linked or someone's gadget? some gadgets are pretty horrible.
- funkyloki, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2More likely your browser config is jacked.
- diggopolous, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2You could of shortened your comment to the good old "I for one welcome our new google overlords"
- inactive, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2Yea.. pw378 is right.. that is just how it works, cookies or not.
And no, you will not have to log in every time you refresh if you turn off 3rd party cookies. Just about every browser has this option, and you should turn it off.
Usually only the site you are looking at can modify cookies for that site. Like digg.com should only be able to create/modify/destroy the cookie associated with digg.com. But then everyone got this great idea to have other companies place cookies on your computer that arent from digg.com when are you on digg.com, maybe checking out a car story with a car ad from cars.com puts a cookie from cars.com on your computer.
Well now you go to facebook and it sees you have a cookie from cars.com so it puts car related ads, maybe some from cars.com on there too.
Now you have targeted ads. Turn off the 3rd party cookies, and you keep digg.com's original cookie only, and that lets you stay logged in at digg.com and you wont get tracked anywhere else. - funkyloki, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2If any of you had bothered to RTFA, you would have seen mention of a plugin that Google made that completely blocks the ad program permanently, so that you wouldn't have to deal with the cookies.
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/ - mithrasinvictus, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2Free FBI trojan software.
- counterplex, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2Ah yes, the "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" argument. There are so many ways that's wrong.
Please let me know your phone numbers so I can setup permanent taps on them. I'm sure you're not engaged in any criminal activities and so wouldn't mind my hearing everything that goes on in your phone calls. As far as a good reason for listening in to your phone calls is concerned, I'm analyzing all digg users' phone conversation topics to determine a general left-wing or right-wing bias. In fact, everyone who reads this and isn't doing anything criminal, please send me your phone numbers. - pw378, on 03/17/2009, -1/+3Welcome to the web browser, this is how the it works.
- krum, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2No, I definitely prefer targeted ads. I'd much rather get an ad for the latest gadget or for a good deal on a hard drive than an ad for facial cream and tampons.
- RaidVan, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2I don't understand why everyone is so worried about saved search information, and things of this nature. I can understand how privacy is an issue when dealing with a bank, but come on... saving your google SEARCH results? That's no big deal.
Also, reading the blog comments, one user states that he does not like the fact that someone MAY be able to find his home based on what he searches/enters into googlemaps. I'm sorry, but that just seems so absurd/not an issue. Again, no one REALLY cares what we do online, unless you are a wanted criminal of course. - inactive, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1thus 'nearly.' See comment above:
http://digg.com/tech_news/How_To_Opt_Out_Of_Google ... - DelvarWorld, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1You're not the only one :). Targeted ads are great when they're in non-intrusive format like Google ads that are going to be on the site whether they're targeted or not.
- inactive, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1@5teady: you do make a point though.. everything exposed to javascript (sometimes including history) can be sent to an ad server as part of the 'ad retrieval process,' and collected to create some type of signature including IP address.. but it lacks the sure-fire session-level accuracy of a good tracking cookie.
@foolfoolz: The nature of cookies restricts each server to it's own information, the problem comes when the same adserver that dropped a cookie on you at facebook.com sees you later at cars.com - that's how you get the car ads coming up on facebook. - norman619, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1You can
- Kajarago, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1a bear that farts a lot
- Yage2006, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1How about adblock,Stylish,Noscript ?
Those work well for me I almost never see adds.
And since my isp put a data limit I am not going to pay to see adds. No matter how small the fee. - norman619, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1I don't get what the fuss is over these targeted ads. Ads are ads. They are evil because they try to advertise things you may be interested in? C'mon...
- 1382747, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1Cool idea for the picture!
- mithrasinvictus, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1Nobody cares yet, what if something you do legally now becomes illegal?
If it's not a big deal, why are these companies so vague about what exactly gets stored?
There is nothing wrong with aggregated browsing data. This is about collecting personal data. - skipdog172, on 03/19/2009, -0/+1you clearly don't understand how this works.
- mithrasinvictus, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1Then why isn't there more transparency about all the information that is tracked?
- funkyloki, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1You know, when I think of some of the things I've searched for using Google...yeah, I'd rather keep that quiet please.
- surfacewound, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1Does disabling 3rd party cookies in Firefox even work? I read that it doesn't work correctly, but I don't remember if this was just a problem with Firefox 2 and was fixed in 3.
- ryeguy1, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1I really don't understand what's with people worrying about targeted ads and privacy. Your browsing history is record by a COMPUTER PROGRAM. No human ever looks at it, collects it, or analyzes it. There is no reason to block these.
What do you people imagine? Google employees sitting at lunch talking about how their customer viewed 3 gay porn sites in one afternoon, then went on to visit young kid sites? Seriously, lighten up. -
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