---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
I hate this trend that I'm sure advertisers just love of signing in to one account (like, HuffPo) by using another (facebook). I've last facebook since they're just another arm of Madison Avenue and the NSA. If a site is good enough to warrant my membership, I will just give them a unique username and a unique password (thank you, Lastpass) and register it with my throw away email address. What I don't like is when they ask for extra information like friend lists. Couldn't be any more blatant could they? There's probably some algorithm running that puts you all on advertisers hot lists but how much use am I to them? And I used to regularly do google searches on things like lawnmowers and geriatric commodes and see how fast my targetted adverts on Facebook would change. Putting a false age and sex helps confuse it too. I was a 100 year old Sikh woman when I joined Facebook and got some highly odd adverts that I didn't follow up. I finally I got fed up with adverts interrupting videos and installed the Chrome adblock add-on. The net is just about perfect now. I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm considering creating a false ID for online use with fake name and other demographics and run it through a VPN exiting in Sweden instead of the US. Use it from a machine where I change the mac address daily and the browser is run in a virtual machine hosting a Linux distro.
