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I just installed a Firefox add on by the name of Collusion, which shows in real time the web-sites that track. After installing Collusion the first web-site I visited was, (of course), the Paracast. In real time and within one minute, I watched over 15 web-sites detect my presence. Out of those 15 web-sites there were 7 in which I have never visited, who are, and have been tracking my adventures on the net. Keep in mind that I just installed this not more than ten minutes ago. Just think of how many web-sites that are tracking your every mouse click, collecting personal data without your consent. If you run Firefox, you’ve got to give this a try. Just watch over the course of one day how many web-sites collect information about every aspect of your personal life. It’s a real eye opener. I found this add on via a Ted Talk entitled, “Tracking the Trackers”
Delete or disable cookies. Of course then you'll find that you need to redo some stuff you also find useful. Even if you surf under a so-called anonymous IP ( using a masker or whatever ), cookies still track and communicate where you've been and what you check out.
As a website construction guy, unless I want to revert to the most basic website possible, which is like going back to the days before Netscape, these technologies need to be enabled or the website just won't work. For example the USI website is useless without a full version frames and JavaScript enabled browser ( forget phones ). We don't do any sort of tracking like we're talking about here ( really ), and they're useful features too, like the site search and auto-frames loading. I get pretty good traffic anyway, but it's just annoying that these exploiters and opportunists have gone so overboard with it that it's hard to build an honest website anymore without throwing security warnings all over the place.