I care. Firefox is go to choice and Safari is 2nd. Deending on the site Safari is first choice.
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Apple Responds to Safari 11 Criticism From Advertising Groups: 'People Have a Right to Privacy'
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Coincidentally, I actually bought from a repeated targeted ad a few weeks ago. I had been searching for a toolbox, so of course I got shown the same Sears ads over and over again for weeks. Then one day it showed a $550 workbench on sale for half price. Score!
Still getting the same ads of course. I need to click that little ad arrow and let them know they're wasting effort.
-> If they really gathered as much info as some here seem to think, they'd know when we bought what we were looking for, and could stop wasting the same ads on us
At that point they should have been providing adds for ad-ons that would improve your work bench and tools to fill up whatever space may be left in the drawers.
Guess what Data and Marketing Association and the Network Advertising Initiative, you can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. You have no right to do anything I don't want you to.
As a former advertising drone, all I can say is:
Cry me a river.
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Cry me a river.
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I genuinely want to know why you still use Firefox in 2017? People choosing Chrome over Safari I can somewhat understand, but Firefox?
Good, drive that wedge, I'm sick to death of perceived 'targeted' advertising being rammed down my throat constantly.
We have companies using web standards to track us and our browsing habits and other companies using web standards to prevent that from happening.
The arrogance of these companies to somehow think they are entitled to my privacy, in spite of my opposition. Dangerous!
careful, they're going to go cry to congress and get apple smacked down
despicable, but that's how the game is played.
despicable, but that's how the game is played.
Its a matter for privacy
Because unlike Safari which breaks everything in private browsing, at least it didn't for me,..
Firefox also has more add-ons as well.
Because unlike Safari which breaks everything in private browsing, at least it didn't for me,..
Firefox also has more add-ons as well.
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Honestly I'd rather get an ad from an Amazon product I left in the cart a few days back then something that's completely irrelevant.
I'm going to get the ad anyways, I'd rather it be something I'm interested in. And how can an ad network know what I'm interested in with a cookie from just one site?
I'm going to get the ad anyways, I'd rather it be something I'm interested in. And how can an ad network know what I'm interested in with a cookie from just one site?
Whatever, per Cambridge Analytica, who already has the power to change election outcomes:
“If we wanted to drill down further, we could resolve the data to an individual level, where we have somewhere close to 4- or 5,000 data points on every adult in the United States.
“If we wanted to drill down further, we could resolve the data to an individual level, where we have somewhere close to 4- or 5,000 data points on every adult in the United States.
I don't think that's possible, unless u never go online ever in the history of the internet... but just went to that one site all your life.
Possible to do, but extremely rare..
That's why Chromium: http://www.freesmug.org/chromium
Sounds good to me. Makes it easier to ignore. Why would I want to feel like some invisible stranger is following me around pretending to be my best friend?
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Anything that can run Yosemite should be able to run High Sierra.
So now what?
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If you are talking about iAd, that was DISCONTINUED over a year ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd
Do try to keep up!
Sorry but you are wrong, private browsing is not so private as you believe. All private browsing does is make your computer not have records of having visited a certain site. However all the companies in the business of tracking people still see you coming to their website when you are in private mode and then can very easily link that to other sites you visit by matching the IP address and other techniques.
http://thednetworks.com/2015/09/24/why-private-browsing-isnt-private/
Exactly! There are VERY few times I've actually seen an ad that was beneficial or that I clicked on, especially when compared with the number that are served. Now, I know that serving those ads is relatively inexpensive, but with so many sites funded by advertising, how on earth is this profitable if no one likes them and would prefer they go away? Maybe those few clicks (multiplied by hundreds of millions) are all it takes . . .
This is great news. The advertisers were given a chance with the Do Not Track options in browsers that they choose to ignore.
I use Safari for my main browsing. Chrome for Facebook, Youtube, and other social media. I figure those ad behemoths already figured out those are my social media accounts. But I'd rather they have no access to my browsing data.
I use Safari for my main browsing. Chrome for Facebook, Youtube, and other social media. I figure those ad behemoths already figured out those are my social media accounts. But I'd rather they have no access to my browsing data.
Does anyone know if this will be "on" by default or if users will need to turn it on?
Steve was an advocate of this policy, let's hope that last. What I see in the other corresponding thread worries me what may be going on here as I have to disable my content blocker to view it.
Likewise, too many people arrogantly believe that everything on the internet should be free.
For example, here you are, hypocritically complaining on a forum supported by targeted ads. If non-targeted ads don't work as well as targeted (and I'm not sure they won't, really), then the lesser payments will require showing more ads on all internet sites... or charge for access.
In the worst case, no more free YouTube, forums, news sites, you name it.
OTOH, I guess if sites begin to have to charge for access, all the kiddies who cannot afford to pay will disappear, and the level of conversation will rise. So maybe it's going to be a good thing in the end. The end of the "Eternal September".
What I don't understand is why advertising can't be relevant to the site it's on. For example MacRumors should be showing ads for technology-related stuff, memory upgrades, apps, etc. Doing that requires zero tracking to reach people who are virtually guaranteed to be interested in the products shown. I welcome such ads. A well known Mac-oriented shop in Illinois has received a lot of my money because I've seen their ads on tech sites.
But for some reason internet advertisers would rather show ads for stuff that I searched for last week. What's crazy about that is that I've probably already made my purchase so the ads are completely wasted. Not only that, but they inform me that I'm being tracked and therefore make me angry and unlikely to buy anything from the retailer.
If we all boycotted places that use targeted ads the tracking companies would be out of business in no time.
But for some reason internet advertisers would rather show ads for stuff that I searched for last week. What's crazy about that is that I've probably already made my purchase so the ads are completely wasted. Not only that, but they inform me that I'm being tracked and therefore make me angry and unlikely to buy anything from the retailer.
If we all boycotted places that use targeted ads the tracking companies would be out of business in no time.
This is already the case for some news outlets and radio applications such as Tunein and iHeartRadio. You can pay a fee for a "premium" subscription which is ad-free. The idea is that your subscription fee offsets any losses they might have by not posting ads when you access their services. It's possible that they still may track you for demographic data. You need to read the fine print.