<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I've also noticed ads being targeted to me that included items related to search terms or web pages I have searched or visited recently. Spooky, especially when the ads were coming at me from web sites totally unrelated to the ones i had originally visited.<br>
<br></div>So, if you are using Mozilla, see this article on how to block third-party cookies, <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-cookies">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-cookies</a>. I just spent some time going through the existing cookies on my laptop and removing almost all of them, leaving only the cookies that are current to my session.<br>
<br></div>We'll see how it goes.<br><br>Also, you can run privoxy as an ad blocking proxy and route Mozilla to use it to block many ads.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Scott Merrill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skippy@skippy.net" target="_blank">skippy@skippy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">In that instance, you can use an anonymizing proxy / VPN. There are many commercial services that offer this now, including many that operate exclusively outside of the jurisdiction of US law.</p>
<p dir="ltr">TorrentFreak had a good comparison recently:<br>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2013-edition-130302/" target="_blank">http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2013-edition-130302/</a></p><div class="HOEnZb">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 1, 2013 9:58 PM, "Rick Hornsby" <<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 14:29, R P Herrold <<a href="mailto:herrold@owlriver.com" target="_blank">herrold@owlriver.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> There have been some mention of privacy concerns as to<br>
> assignments within ipv6 /64 blocks in Europe, but I don't<br>
> really see it as exposing any new PII not otherwise available<br>
> through passive traffic pattern analysis<br>
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Right now we can block (and delete) browser cookies to stop being tracked across the web sites we visit. I've noticed recently a significant uptick in specific banner ads on unrelated sites (ie news) for specific products I've browsed at a shopping site like B&H. This is troubling, and while I deleted my entire cookie cache when I realized it, I'm tempted to institute a per month full cookie delete.<br>
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We can't reliably be tracked (or track our own customers, should we wish to) over time by our IPv4 address both because of NATs, and because of DHCP. I'm not sure I've heard this yet in this discussion thread, but I have this distinct impression that an IPv6 address is more or less static, because it is based on the hardware address of the NIC? If so, that would negate any efforts to delete tracking cookies.<br>
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