The easiest way to skew your online profile is to use Google as a
dictionary and encyclopedia. Apparently they never figured on people
doing that but I wind up looking up things that I have absolutely no
interest in buying. Hence by profile is worthless. :-D
I also installed BlueHell Firewall on Firefox which can easily be turned
off and on. There were a few sites I regularly visited where their ad
scripts would hang the browser or ad delivery be so late that as I was
typing in a reply on a forum the focus would get taken away from the
message pane. Very annoying. Now some sites won't deliver you content
if an ad blocker is on. There are other sites who know how to embed ads
even with the ad blocker on. And CBS now won't play a video with the ad
blocker on.
I've experimented with ads on my sites and the reality is that you will
only get about 2% will even click on an ad thus producing revenue. But
with the bankstas crushing the world into poverty people are desperate
for any revenue they can get.
On 06/03/2015 11:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---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.
