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I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« on: September 21, 2012, 11:13:28 PM »
In case none of you have ever heard of the plugin named "collusion" that tracks and displays the invisible websites tracking your personal data and so in in the form of cookies.

I just wanted to show you all this, so i did a quick example with cg.net...

So i went into chrome, and typed in www.catalyst-gaming.net and did nothing else, and i was already being tracked by 26 invisible sites, as shown in the picture below:
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Next, I went to the thread about rofl being in a car accident and I looked at the pictures, then looked at the trackers again:
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Thats 39 sites that are tracking my shit and ive only done 2 THINGS...

Ok so yeah... you all probably already know you are getting tracked and stuff but i just wanted to demonstrate :/

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 11:26:24 PM »
It's not like they use the information for anything. It's just a cookie.

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 11:34:31 PM »
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHRMeRszw4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHRMeRszw4</a>

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 11:44:20 PM »
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHRMeRszw4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHRMeRszw4</a>
inb4 admin calls shit post.

and yeah Im not surprised about sites tracking shit.

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2012, 10:58:33 AM »
If this scares you I hope you don't use google on a daily basis.



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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2012, 11:05:01 AM »
This is basic to be quite honest.

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2012, 03:01:52 PM »
Don't start freaking out about this, why? Because Britain has.

If we didn't have cookies, it would be such a fucking pain to do simple stuff such as the "keep me logged in" option. Every time you click that, you would have to be presented with a pop-up requesting permission to leave a cookie.

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2012, 03:03:04 AM »
So there are some sites tracking your navigation on Internet. Not a big surprise really. Also, there's not much you could do, so why bother?

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Re: I'm officially afraid to be on the internet.
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2012, 01:18:39 PM »
What a cookie does:


Stays on your computer, tells the parent site which sites you visit, and gives them info (not credit cards, just site info) and if you plug in your password to say, facebook, and want it to remember you, it gives you a cookie to do that.

 

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