Getting a bit creepy

Re:Getting a bit creepy by tonyplee on Saturday November 16, 2013 @12:10PM (#6745455)

I switched to firefox with noscript. Stop using chrome 90% of times. Turn off 3rd party cookie on default for all browsers. pointed doubleclick.net/com to 127.0.0.1 to /etc/hosts.

The web felt less creepy now.

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Re:Getting a bit creepy by lostlogin on Saturday November 16, 2013 @01:45PM (#6745914)

There are several work computers that are shared. The poor thing is trying to advertise to is but it is hopelessly confused. Between work and several staff of wildly different interests it can't target to save itself. It reminds me of a comment on HN some time ago where it was mentioned that grocery store discount cards were randomly shuffled between friends to prevent tracking.

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Re:Getting a bit creepy by greenyoda on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:06PM (#6746011)

There's an extension for Chrome called NotScripts, which does pretty much what NoScript does in Firefox:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notscripts/odjhifo...

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Re:Getting a bit creepy by CamperBob2 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:45PM (#6746173)

I don't run noscript, but I find it's just as helpful to hit ctrl-shift-P to open a private browsing window in Firefox whenever I'm about to visit a site I don't want to see future ads from.

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Re:Getting a bit creepy by ams6110 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @12:27PM (#6745543)

I have a huge number of names in my hosts file. I use the MVPS hosts file but there are at least a few available along those lines. I also have facebook in it.

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