With spyders and bots crawling all over the web searching for our contact information combined with low-life characters and so-called reputable businesses gleaning information our about the web sites we visit it is a wonder that we don't get more unsolicited email than we do.

I was doing a scene involving breast worship and exchanged emails with mention of nursing bras. The next thing I see are ads for maternity clothing and diapers! Clearly the keywords in my emails triggered that nonsense.

I like to use Safari, which has an option for private browsing. That helps with the tracking when it comes to sites I visit, but I don't think there's a way around the Beacons tracking your messages.

I hear the latest versions of IE have the private browsing option. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone is deep enough in to comment on anonymous browsing.

MaDom Aura

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy!

http://www.ghostery.com/

Also, try AdBlock Plus, and you won't get Yahoo's ads anymore.

http://adblockplus.org/en/

BTW, Ghostery shows the Google Analytics beacon on RB pages. And we all know how much respect Google has for privacy.

Now that I have ghostery in place, I'll look back and see how
extensive the vapour trail is.

-A

Comes with Comes with Windows7. I'm no expert and rarely use it as I don't care about being tracked where I go. When it comes to emails, everyone has an email for family and business purposes, one for general, and for ordering kinky stuff on line, right?

http://forum.myredbook.com/dcforum2/User_files2/b2o6s0950011m8ow.jpg

Copied from IE:

What is InPrivate Browsing?
InPrivate Browsing prevents Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. This helps prevent anyone else who might be using your computer from seeing where you visited and what you looked at on the web. When you start InPrivate Browsing, Internet Explorer opens a new window. The protection that InPrivate Browsing provides is only in effect during the time that you use that window. You can open as many tabs as you want in that window, and they will all be protected by InPrivate Browsing. However, if you open another browser window, that window will not be protected by InPrivate Browsing. To end your InPrivate Browsing session, close the browser window..

InPrivate Filtering helps prevent website content providers from collecting information about sites you visit. Here's how it works.

Many webpages use content—such as advertisements, maps, or web analysis tools—from websites other than the one you are visiting. These websites are called content providers or third-party websites. When you visit a website with third-party content, some information about you is sent to the content provider. If a content provider offers content to a large number of the websites you visit, the content provider could develop a profile of your browsing preferences. Profiles of browsing preferences can be used in a variety of ways, including for analysis and serving targeted advertisements.

Usually this third-party content is displayed seamlessly, such as in an embedded video or image. The content appears to originate from the website you originally went to, so you may not know that another website might be able to see where you are surfing. Web analysis or web measurement tools report website visitors' browsing habits, and are not always obvious to you. While these tools can sometimes appear as visible content (such as a visitor counter, for example), they are often not visible to users, as is often the case with web beacons. Web beacons are typically single-pixel transparent images whose sole purpose is to track website usage, and they do not appear as visible content.

InPrivate Filtering works by analyzing web content on the webpages you visit, and if it sees the same content being used on a number of websites, it will give you the option to allow or block that content. You can also choose to have InPrivate Filtering automatically block any content provider or third-party website it detects, or you can choose to turn off InPrivate Filtering.

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