| [Tags**|cookies, geek, internet, privacy] [Current Mood** |
o.O]Browsing the Web is messy these days. You get an awful lot of people putting an awful lot of stuff on your computer that you actually have no interest in at all, but which serves their market research, or somebody else's, or something... all you can really be sure of is that somebody gets paid, but it's not you, and meanwhile someone is collecting staggering amounts of information about your browsing habits.I don't really care for that, so I thought I'd start blocking the domains of the most egregious tracking services. So I deleted my browser's current crop of cookies, and visited some Web sites—not many, a dozen or so. And in the space of one hour, my browser collected tracking cookies from all the following:**( 37 pairs of watching eyes...Collapse )**All of these sites serve no purpose at all but to stare over your shoulder as you browse, collecting scads and reams and bolts of information about everything you do on the Web.Scary shit, yo. |