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Google behavioral targeting - scoop - Mar. 11, 2009 10:42 PM
Will we proxomitron users be affected by this "behavioral targeting"??
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/03/11/google-ads-might-be-watching-you
RE: Google behavioral targeting - ProxRocks - Mar. 11, 2009 10:51 PM
hmmm... interesting...
i "suspect" that the ol' disable scripts by default will do the trick, but i'm not positive on that (yet)... if anyone can find more links on it, please keep us posted...
RE: Google behavioral targeting - eclipse - Mar. 11, 2009 11:31 PM
Quote:The system uses a cookie - a small piece of text that lives inside a web browser - to track users as they visit different websites that show ads through its AdSense program.
Users will be assigned to categories based on the content of the pages they visit.
Quote:"The cookie doesn't show up any personally identifiable information so that is why we think opt-out is the right way to go," said a Google spokesman.
Information on YouTube , such as the videos people have been watching, will "be factored into" the system, said the spokesman.
From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7937201.stm
RE: Google behavioral targeting - lnminente - Mar. 12, 2009 12:53 AM
Please move this thread to his right subforum... Privacy/Security/Spam
Hopefully our forum is growing, we have to put order before is too late.
edit by admin: moved to P/S/S... thanks...
RE: Google behavioral targeting - scoop - Mar. 12, 2009 10:58 AM
Apologies for posting in wrong section admins
RE: Google behavioral targeting - lnminente - Mar. 12, 2009 11:59 AM
The thing about google, is something we should take in consideration really.
Most of the ads in internet are now coming from them, and they use very advanced techniques.
They have a very good browser, they have gmail, also google reader, youtube and cookies with so large strings...
If we disable scripts from google, many webs using them are constructed to get broken, also we should let scripts for google maps. Still the tracking would exist with the cookies, and with every request or search we do
RE: Google behavioral targeting - sidki3003 - Mar. 12, 2009 01:29 PM
Interestingly, the respective cookie isn't coming from a google domain, but googleads.g.doubleclick.net :
Code:
Set-Cookie: id=200000f0178c7f8e||t=1236863525|et=730|cs=_yqcrola; expires=Sat, 12-Mar-2011 13:12:05 GMT; path=/; domain=.doubleclick.netI assume that it gets blocked by most config sets.
Another way would be to change its content. After opting out ( http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view ) it looks like:
Code:
Set-Cookie: id=OPT_OUT; expires=Sat, 09-Nov-2030 23:59:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.doubleclick.netRE: Google behavioral targeting - 43unite - Mar. 12, 2009 02:24 PM
This article contains the following links:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/11/google_behavioral_advertising/
Google does offer a browser plug-in that maintains your opt-out even when cookies are cleared, but it's only available for Firefox and IE. So, you're out of luck if you're running Safari or Opera - or Google's own Chrome.
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin
Google is offering something called an Ad Preferences Manager, where you view and edit the ad categories Google has placed you in based on your past behavior. If you like, you can even tell Google to serve you ads in additional categories.
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
You can also opt-out of the program. But this is a cookie-based opt-out, which means you'll have to opt-out on every machine and every browser you use. It also means that if you're someone who regularly clears your cookies for privacy reasons, you'll opt yourself back in.
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
There's also the Firefox "CustomizeGoogle" addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743
RE: Google behavioral targeting - lnminente - Mar. 12, 2009 04:25 PM
And still more cookies (included yahoo and google) here http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Some info in google about privacy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html
RE: Google behavioral targeting - bugger - Mar. 12, 2009 10:50 PM
ahhh this script can piss google off. Wonder if we can get a proxomitron equivalent. lol
Code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Blackspot Google
// @namespace http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/blackspot_blog/unclick_google.html
// @description Automatically clicks on Google ads as protest against privacy violations -- based on Prefetch Google Ads by Alf at http://hublog.hubmed.org
// @include http://*
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
window.addEventListener("load", function(e) {
var l = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i = 0; i < l.length; i++){
var link = l[i].href;
if (link.match(/aclk\?/i)){
GM_xmlhttpRequest({
method:"GET",
url:link,
headers: {'Referer': document.location},
onload:function(result) {
}
});
}
}
}, false);
})();RE: Google behavioral targeting - Siamesecat - Mar. 13, 2009 06:15 AM
I think the best thing to do with cookies is to block them by default and allow only those that you need, and if they are not needed to persist, limit them to session only.