Odds happening concerning google and a2k and advs.

Footnote while I did not have the no third party cookies enable I did have the no tracking beacon/request turn on so shame on google and able2know if they did not honor that request.

The "Do Not Track" option in Chrome doesn't actually do what most people would expect it to and users have to take additional steps to effectively disable tracking. Nearly all ads on able2know are served by Google and its servers do not currently do anything different in response to a "Do Not Track" request sent by a web browser. However, you can change this by visiting http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ and editing your preferences there. You can also visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of even more tracking. There are also a number of Chrome extensions that can be used to monitor and block various tracking cookies and scripts. Personally, I don't bother with this so I'm not very familiar with them but one that I tried recently is Ghostery.

There was an interesting article in the New York Times related to this awhile back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/technology/your-online-attention-bought-in-an-instant-by-advertisers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Me, I'm so sorry google is fixated on my being in Albuquerque. I'd rather get ads from New York City, Stockholm, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Rio, Buenos Aires.


Whatever. Too bad I already know Albuquerque.

I run all my browsers in a sandbox that wiped out all cookies and browsing history and even so call super cookies at the end of a session so the only reason I took note of this tracking was in was during one browsing session.

Thanks for the info and the links in any case they are interesting.