View Single Post
Posts: 607 | Thanked: 450 times | Joined on Sep 2009 @ Washington, DC
#48
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
You need a lot of technical knowledge to do this.
You would first need to be aware of Google Analytics (which most people aren't), then know how to block it.

Then you'd have to realize how Google Ads on various web pages you visit work. That they're not just something that is "broadcast" to you like a TV commercial or a print ad. (That's what the average internet user thinks.)

Then you'd have to know that Google keeps information even about the searches you perform. (Again, we know, but most people have never heard the term 'cookie' or know what it is.)

Not knowing what all this is, that it even exists, how could you make a decision to avoid it? (And we haven't even started talking about Google storing and indexing your personal mails, chats, documents,... to add them to the above mix.)
If you're concerned about it, I would guess you already know much of that. If you aren't concerned about it (which is the majority of the surfers) then you don't care.

For myself, I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus for the ads, NoScript to block Analytics (and other trackers), and BetterPrivacy for LSOs (Local Shared Objects, also known as Flash cookies). OTOH, I do use Google's search and Yahoo's mail plus I allow cookies for a session. Life is a trade-off.