Posts tagged privacy
In case you haven’t seen - a move that signals what we all knew was coming - Google is further unifying their products, starting with a single privacy policy.
Their new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy take effect on March 1, 2012.
How to stop holiday advertisers from following you
Now that your gift giving has slowed, you’ll begin to notice a lot of “re-targeting” by advertisers that you may have visited during your online shopping. I personally was being annoyed by the frequency of ads from the same advertisers that I had visited and not purchased from.
Here is a simple way to remove yourself from behaviorally targeted ads that attempt to get you to come back and buy from them.
Note: many of the companies bury the opt out link on the page, simply scroll down and look for the OPT OUT or use your FIND function to search for it on the page.
OPEN X (click on SET OPT OUT COOKIE)
http://www.openx.com/about/privacy-policy
GOOGLE AD NETWORK
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/
ADBRITE
http://www.adbrite.com/mb/behavorial_optout.php
AD ROLL
http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy
APP NEXUS
http://www.appnexus.com/platform-policy#choices
AOL
http://advertising.aol.com/privacy/advertisingcom/opt-out
Social “widgets” such as Facebook’s LIKE button, have the ability to effectively follow a user across the web and tie back their activity to their personal account.
What do they know about you? 4 online privacy resources you should visit today
Simple tool that shows you which tracking cookies are on your computer and allows you to “opt out” of the behavioral advertising delivered by the companies included in the tool.
Note that opting out of a network doesn’t mean you will see online ads. Rather, it means that the network from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
View and edit the information Google uses to show you interest-based ads on websites in Google’s ad network. Add or remove interest categories associated with your web browser, or opt out of seeing behaviorally targeted ads altogether.
Find the answer to the question, “What does Google know about me?” with this service, which shows you information stored in your Google Account. From one central location, you can easily change your privacy settings for services such as Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Picasa, and Google Profiles.
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How to opt-out of Google Ad targeting based on your interests and demographics
As you may or may not be aware, many online advertising networks target you based on sites you have recently visited and data they can glean from how you surf the web. Some people find it useful to see ads customized for them, some people find it invasive. Either way, you have a choice and can remove the data stored in your browser used to track your behavior and serve you ads.
An Initial Crack At A Self-Policing System for the Online Ad Industry
Starting this week, AT&T, American Express, Microsoft and dozens of other major marketers will pull the veil off their web ads and show consumers what’s inside.
It’s the first trial of what some hope will become the online ad industry’s long-promised self-policing system designed to stave off the growing forces for regulation in Washington, as well as give consumers more control over how they are targeted by advertisers.
