Tag Archives: Privacy

The EFF has a new version of their Panopticlick browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool. It’s now called Cover Your Tracks. The tool doesn’t prevent the malevolent adtech industry from tracking you, it’s merely a testing tool to estimate how … Continue reading →

If you aren’t in Marketing, it’s really easy to hate Adtech. It turns out that even if you are in Marketing, you should still hate it. The fact is, the numbers that Adtech produces are pretty much worthless. Although that’s … Continue reading →

It’s like something out of Kafka. C. awoke one morning to find that after 15 years, all of his Google accounts were locked. He’d been accused of violating the terms of service. What violation? They wouldn’t tell him. He didn’t … Continue reading →

Karl Voit has an interesting diatribe on his Web site that really resonated with me. The TL;DR is that you shouldn’t commit anything relevant to Web forums like Reddit, Hacker News, or Facebook. What Voit terms as “relevant,” I would … Continue reading →

One of the annoying consequences of the GDPR is the popups asking you if it’s okay to set cookies. Mostly, those cookies are used to track us and are something we definitely don’t want to enable. Sadly, some of those … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I wrote a post praising Daring Fireball for it’s take on adtech’s panty-wetting reaction to Apple’s plan to require user permission before accessing the advertising ID (IDFA) on Apple devices. Adtech loves the IDFA because it … Continue reading →

I’ve been a big fan of Daring Fireball for years. Sadly, of late it’s devolved from being a tech blog that occasionally mentioned politics to a political blog that occasionally mentions tech. Nevertheless, Gruber can still bring it when a … Continue reading →

A really great article by Gilad Edelman in Wired asks Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? The article is from March but I somehow missed it and it’s definitely worth writing about. Even without going into any details at … Continue reading →

The (Canadian) Financial Post has a truly horrifying story about out-of-control tracking by the chain coffee shop Tim Hortons. James McLeod uses the Tim Hortons ordering app on his Android phone so he could order his “morning medium coffee with … Continue reading →