Invasion of Privacy

[MrRockliffe]

Judging by what I am seeing its anything but very accurate more like a load of rubbish. Relevant adverts and advert tracking seem to have fallen off a in recent years.

As I say, it can be used to identify you accurately, but current advertising methods may not incorporate this yet

 

[Rroff]

Judging by what I am seeing its anything but very accurate more like a load of rubbish. Relevant adverts and advert tracking seem to have fallen off a in recent years.

You need a lot of unique identifiers to try and tag someone - a lot of people will have a default install of the browser, default fonts, browse fullscreen on a 1920x1080 display, etc. etc. some habits might be more identifying but accuracy will overall be low even if you can pinpoint individual users who for some reason stand out due to non-standard setups, etc.

 

[Azza]

Last Thursday me and the Brother in law were talking about Karcher washers, when my wife got home her Facebook had loads of Karcher adverts.
I've done it myself, talking about bike locks and next thing I'm seeing adverts.

Off topic, but that new Karcher TV advert is absolutely horrendous.

 

[LeeUK]

 

[Tom_ed1987]

In all honesty, I used to care. Like, really care. But it doesn't matter to me as much as it used to. The more you think about these things, the more you try to avoid 'the botnet', the more mad it will drive you.

Yep, this was me. I used to be ultra security conscious. Used tor/VPN's, hushmail, many cookie/tracker blockers, online pseudonyms, looked to minimize use of google etc. I don't really bother now though. Being completely private online is pretty much impossible & not having things like a Linkedin profile/a publically searchable 'image' is actually becoming a major disadvantage in life.

I still stick with using a VPN but that's even getting increasingly more frustrating with constant captchas & being more widely blocked.

 

[sigma]

Sometimes it's built in the platform and can be used for analytics. I know that when I built a website using Square space for my wife it comes will all sorts baked it.



I get some people are very private, but honestly this is just the digital advertising norm. I block ads, they collect data and it doesn't affect me one bit.

Some people like to think up elaborate scenarios where Google or Facebook will use the data against them.

Elaborate situations such as the politicians using the data unlawfully to spread lies (Cambridge analytica anyone?).

Not many people care about privacy, hence we (the herpderps) vote in parties who care little about it.

 

[jaybee]

YouTube without ad blockers or vanced = unwatchable

I used to also care about being tracked then one day I stopped caring because there's only so much you can do or waste worrying about. I've been served ads based on key words in my own emails. Pretty sad but it's how it is.

 

[Lmg80]

YouTube without ad blockers or vanced = unwatchable

I used to also care about being tracked then one day I stopped caring because there's only so much you can do or waste worrying about. I've been served ads based on key words in my own emails. Pretty sad but it's how it is.

Most content providers have sold out to sponsors though, adblock cannot deal with these.

 

[jaybee]

Most content providers have sold out to sponsors though, adblock cannot deal with these.

Depends on the type of video and channel but yes, a lot have in video sponsors. At least easily skipping forward is possible with these.

 

[LiE]

Depends on the type of video and channel but yes, a lot have in video sponsors. At least easily skipping forward is possible with these.

Yep, most of the ones I watch are "Stay tuned at the end of the video for a message from our sponsor" giving people an easy way to end the video at that point.