All social networking sites like Facebook twitter google plus and others are using tracking cookies to keep track of your user Behaviour. Social websites mint money by studying and tracking online consumer usage patterns and then showing related ads to users. Generally most ad tracking technology works by installing cookies at the browser level which studies your browsing behaviour not only when you are connected to them,but also when you are browsing other websites on the internet. The reason is quite simple.Advertisers are willing to pay more money to advertise across social networks as more information and data are available in terms of targeting the consumer . The places you visit , the products you buy and the places you go with your friends and food you eat are indicators to your consumer usage habits and they like a proverbial golden goose to advertisers.. The way social media sites are more able to track you is by placing a like, share and login buttons on other websites and then using tracking cookies to identify every visitor.
Each time you visit a webpage with any social networking buttons not only you are revealing who you are but you are also revealing what kind of websites you like, the products you recommend and the things you buy.Advertisers are willing to pay a premium to target such audiences.
Each time you visit a webpage with any social networking buttons not only you are revealing who you are but you are also revealing what kind of websites you like, the products you recommend and the things you buy.Advertisers are willing to pay a premium to target such audiences.
However if you wish to stop social networking sites from targeting and tracking you ,Here are a few options.
1)One of them is to use BLUR APP. Blur (abine.com/donottrackme.html ) is a free browser extension that blocks social networking sites from tracking your activity on the internet. It is currently available on google chrome and mozilla firefox browsers.
1)One of them is to use BLUR APP. Blur (abine.com/donottrackme.html ) is a free browser extension that blocks social networking sites from tracking your activity on the internet. It is currently available on google chrome and mozilla firefox browsers.
3)ScriptNo for Chrome - ScriptNo is much like Ghostery in that any scripts running on any site you visit will sound its alarms. The difference is that while Ghostery is a bit more exclusive about the types of information it alerts you to, ScriptNo will sound the alarm at just about everything, which will break a ton of websites. You'll visit the site, half of it won't load or work, and you'll have to selectively enable scripts until it's usable. Still, its intuitive interface will help you choose which scripts on a page you'd like to allow and which you'd like to block without sacrificing the actual content on the page you'd like to read.
There is this popular misconception that turning on the Incognito mode on chrome will help you evade tracking by social media sites. However this will not help There is a myth that browsing in incognito/private mode on your browser would solve all these problems. But even this won't completely stop ads. There are further measures that must be put in place, including different browser add-ons, which let you customize what you're blocking. Hot Spot Shield hides IP addresses. IP addresses are generally used to link data and other information that a website knows about you. |
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