They Are Watching

[Undertoad]

In my entire online life I have only heard one way tracking wound up being bad for somebody: when they got ads that they wanted to hide from other people for reasons. Like, person A researched pregnancy and got pregnancy-related ads, and person B didn't know person A was pregnant until they watched over person A's shoulder when they were using the web.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I use adblocker but disable it for my regular sites and any newspaper site I land on through a link. yesterday one of my favorite pens ran out of ink so I went to the pen suppliers site looking for a refill but they didn't sell them. Latwer I was on a site where I don't use adblocker and suddenly I'm getting a banner and a side ad from this pen company that were multicolored and FLASHING. Arrrgg
But for the most part, if that's the way they can make a living have at it.
I also wonder what they aren't saying, not paranoid, just curious.

I was surprised at the depth of the spit swapping between the different tracking outfits but as long as they don't tell Mom, fuck it.