I use different browsers for different purposes, some with script blockers and ad blockers that let only certain things through. Because so many sites totally fail when you block or turn of scripting, for general browsing I use a private mode browser that deletes all stored content on exit.
By the way one of the problems with income inequality are government statistics. To save governments money, cost-of-living indices have been modified over the years reducing the reported inflation below actual cost of living expenses. The economy then deceptively looks better, while wages and social benefits based on these measures progressively decline against real living expenses, so it is not just the big shots at the trough, but a veil of inaccuracies that lead to false conclusions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com 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.
