All major ad companies are tracking your every move on the internet. This article goes through the steps on how to opt-out of ALL of their programs and their underground tracking movement.
Online advertising is big bucks these days. Ad companies are throwing in their ethics towels and tracking as many end users as possible using hidden tracking cookies on your computer. Nearly everyone that uses the internet has at least a handful of different tracking cookies from various ad companies.
Whether they get the cookies on your computer by an annoying popup or by a simple banner ad, they can track your presence on the internet without trouble. Here are a list of the hard hitters of ads and online tracking:
aCerno
Advertising.com
Akamai
AlmondNet
Atlas
AudienceScience
BlueKai
BlueLithium
Burst Media
Collective Media
Dedicated Networks
eXelate Media
FetchBack
Fox Audience Network
Google
interCLICK
Lotame
Mediaplex
Media6degrees
Mindset Media
NextAction
Quantcast
richrelevance
Safecount
SpecificMEDIA
Traffic Marketplace
Tumri
Turn
24/7 Real Media
Undertone Networks
ValueClick Media
[x+1] (formerly Poindexter Systems)
Yahoo! Ad Network
TACODA Audience Networks
Tribal Fusion
All of which legally have to allow for an end user to opt-out of tracking. Opting out from each company individually is effective but takes forever (they don’t want you to). However, an online organization against user tracking has set up an easily accessible, across-the-board opt-out feature. This organization also allows you to see which companies you are currently being tracked by.
I hope that you guys can all untrack yourself by the above method or by doing all of them individually.
Goodluck!
Sun, Aug 9, 2009, by 123iPodder
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