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Startpage supposedly the most private search engine.. uses Google AdWords?

Just feels a bit contradictive to me as we know advertisements basically live off tracking. In the picture below we can clearly see tracking parameters on the adwords links. Not to mention Google is mainly an advertisement company, we can … Read more

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I’m not bothered about cookies and privacy intrusion, Firefox privacy feature deletes all cookies on close

You know those cookie opt-in/opt-out information bars that you regularly spot when you surf around (mostly big) websites? Here’s one from thesun.co.uk. The fuzz is that cookies can be used to identify users on subsequent visits, therefore a possible privacy … Read more

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Do Not Track (DNT) scares the advertisement industry, and with good reason ..

They think they can’t live without it. Here’s my proposal on how to deal with it. Qualitative data > quantitative data Quantitative data, tracking statistics, is error prone. It can be misleading and it’s almost impossible to interpret the data. … Read more

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