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megimoo
05-23-2011, 07:22 AM
With little notice or fanfare, the digital world is fundamentally changing. What was once an anonymous medium where anyone could be anyone
-- where, in the words of the famous New Yorker cartoon, nobody knows you're a dog -- is now a tool for soliciting and analyzing our personal data.

According to one Wall Street Journal study, the top 50 Internet sites, from CNN to Yahoo to MSN, install an average of 64 data-laden cookies and personal tracking beacons each. Search for a word like "depression" on Dictionary.com,

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/22/pariser.filter.bubble/index.html
namvet
05-23-2011, 08:59 AM
me luv cookies !!!!

http://www.infobarrel.com/media/image/36525.jpg
Gingersnap
05-23-2011, 10:11 AM
Excellent article! Everybody should read this.
fettpett
05-23-2011, 11:33 AM
CCleaner, everyone should use it

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
megimoo
05-23-2011, 11:43 AM
CCleaner, everyone should use it

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/Use it every day...These cookies are hidden in a different place so they aren't deleted by ccleaner .
namvet
05-23-2011, 11:48 AM
CCleaner, everyone should use it

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

yep i have it installed
namvet
05-23-2011, 11:49 AM
Use it every day...These cookies are hidden in a different place so they aren't deleted by ccleaner .

you can delte them on your browser. as well as temp internt files. but if i delete cookies it signs me off here. no big deal.