Facebook

WOW! Scary! I did notice couple years ago that if I used a search engine the very thing I searched for would show up as a ad in Facebook. I started closing my browser and running CCleaner to clear history and cookies after logging off Facebook. I thought Facebook was not showing ads pertaining to my internet activity as much, but I will be watching more carefully now. Thanks for the heads up.

 

Kestrel13!, you are being tracked by Facebook :crap. All Facebook :fart account holders are being tracked and the info is then sold. That's how Mark Zuckerberg became a multi-billionaire. Look at the follwing thread and see how I was insulted for mentioning this.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=289285

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I am using Abine's DoNotTrackMe. Unfortunately, it uses a lot of RAM & CPU.

PS Many Americans are up in arms because of the NSA's 'spying' on private citizens, but their silence is deafening about Facebook's 'spying'.

 

Bizare, Kes! Never see any adverts on Fb. Using Firefox on OS X and Windows with ABP.
And using, Ghostery only on Windows. I never see any adverts anywhere?!
Cheers..

 

I looked here and at the Ghostery site and I don't see Ghostery for Internet Explorer.

 

I've used ghostery in a couple other browsers but never could find it for IE either. But if you swap browsers for just one afternoon or evening you'll get a idea of all the linked together sites there are out there.

 

I have just checked again and Ghostery is only available for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera.

I also use Tracking Protection Lists in IE9, but that's another story. rolleyes

 

I found tracking protection to be more resource hungry than the trackers. If I go to MG's and google news and maybe youtube who's gonna follow me?

 

This could be a reason to use an email client for your gmail account; gmail can be set to work as POP or IMAP mail, using an email client to handle your email.