Kool - 19431218 Collier’s on Flickr.
I always use cigarettes to cure my cold.
Kool and the gang Not what Benton had in mind when he designed Century Schoolbook.
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Turning on ‘Do Not Track’ in Google Chrome
The promise of Do Not Track was supposed to be that with a simple push of the button, ad networks will no longer be able to track your online behavior.
Not only is Do Not Track the opposite of simple, it also does absolutely nothing.
To illustrate, here’s how Do Not Track was implemented in…
What can I say? About as useful as Google Ads Preferences Manager. It’s not in their interests to circumvent a golden goose that gives them $3,000 million a year.
Google is not collecting more info Why do I find this really, really difficult to believe?
UK: you are a terrorist if you pirate stuff Britain is more f***ed up than I thought. Almost as bad as a New Zealand politician thinking that the internet is Skynet. We can, of course, trace all of it back to US entertainment industry lobbyists.
Today, another Buzz follower Wasn’t July 31 meant to be the end of hidden Google profiles? Looks like more Google BS.
And again So sick of having to do this nearly daily. And I don’t even have a Buzz account.
And no, blocking these people does not add to the pre-blocked 18 on Google Plus. Google picked those randomly.
Today’s Google cookie When Google says, ‘Opting out of the DoubleClick cookie means that Google’s AdSense partners, DoubleClick, and certain Google services using the DoubleClick cookie will know you have opted out of the cookie and will not attempt to assign other DoubleClick cookies in the future. You will see the same number of ads as before, but they may not be as relevant when you opt out,’ they are lying. This has been tested now over five days, and regardless of whether Google assigns a one-session cookie (which, reading the above, you would think it wouldn’t) or one that expires November 9, 2030, the company will eventually ignore it and assign a new Doubleclick cookie—exactly contrary to what it states. Here was my main blog’s entry on day three. Google does not care about your privacy.
More opaqueness and deception from Facebook
These days, whenever Mark Zuckerberg sends an open letter to Facebook members, you know there’s going to be a fair amount of deception involved. The latest privacy changes run counter to promises Facebook made a month ago, as the EFF reveals the company lied—again.
Prediction: today’s Facebook is tomorrow’s AltaVista: big and seemingly impregnable now, curiously vanished in a few years. Already few trust Facebook with their most sensitive information, and its respect toward users gets worse by the year.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
