Blocking Ad Trackers With Ghostery
Advertisements used to pop-up and bombard your screen as you surfed the internet. Now, they’re smarter about it. As more and more people have discovered pop-up blockers, advertisers now embed their ads into the site you’re on and collect data from the websites you visit. For example, Wayne shops on Amazon.com for health supplements. In almost Minority Report-like fashion, an ad is displayed on the next website he visits; but what’s creepy about it is that it’s for the exact same supplement he had been previously been looking at. This is the world of targeted advertising through hidden trackers. Most of...
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