I cleared my cookies, history, etc... from my web browser... Remember, I didn't have any history telling any other website who I am.


I logged into facebook first.


I go to pandora. Without even logging on... it says: "Hi Josh. Pandora is using Facebook to personalize your experience. We're starting you off with a station based on the artist you 'liked' on Facebook"

Then I go to youtube

I go to youtube... It says I cannot have a youtube account without attaching it to my Google Account. It knows about my google account because it's my loggin email in facebook

yahoo.com wants me to connect to google and facebook.

myspace wants me to connect with facebook.


FUCK goddamn. I don't want to be one person everywhere I go.
I don't want every website to know everything about me.
I want to be an independent instance of a user for each site I go to.

At the same time, there are websites I DO want the website to know.
I don't want any sneaky shit saved in my cookies for other websites to steal.


Fuck you can't control who sees what anymore. No privacy exists anymore.


This incoherent and incomplete thought brought to you by GeniuSxBoY.

8/30/2011 6:00:03 PM

so should I post a link to your Facebook here or

8/30/2011 6:07:53 PM

You're on myspace?!?

[Edited on August 30, 2011 at 6:09 PM. Reason : Didn't realize people still used myspace.]

8/30/2011 6:08:59 PM

8/30/2011 6:14:39 PM

At what point is too much for people nowadays?


I need to know where to draw the line.

8/30/2011 6:19:00 PM

Welcome to the age of the super cookie and advanced tracking.
http://panopticlick.eff.org/

8/30/2011 6:24:30 PM

The source of your troubles is from TWW. I suggest logging out.

8/30/2011 6:51:53 PM

I bet geniusboy still uses IE lol.

8/30/2011 6:53:07 PM

You should kill yourself.

8/30/2011 6:54:09 PM

^^

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/870979-google-chrome-opera-firefox-users-smarter-than-internet-explorer-users

8/30/2011 6:56:25 PM

^That was a hoax

Anyway, Pandora uses the Facebook API to get the info.; it's something that Facebook allows many sites to do, and as long as a site loads a bit of code hosted on facebook.com it can access data from your user account in accordance with that API (this circumvents the same-origin policy).

9/1/2011 4:47:54 AM

Just disable cookies. Some other things will stop working but it will solve your issue.

9/1/2011 7:29:29 AM

i was looking at a Mazda 5 yesterday and ever since about half of my tww ads are mazda ads

last week a significant portion of my tww ads (as well as ads on several other sites) were for a stock market analysis company i used to work for


what a world we live in

9/1/2011 9:57:05 AM

yeah i hate that stuff. I have two gmail accounts for personal and school, and i have to constantly log out and switch for almost every site. my personal is linked to my youtube, but i stay logged in my school email. so if i go to youtube now i have to log out of one and log in the other.

i think there was an option to have a master gmail account, where you can have two logged in simultaneously ,but i dont want that....

9/1/2011 9:58:10 AM

This was only 28 days ago? It felt like forever.

9/28/2011 1:22:37 PM

While it is kinda creepy that they have all this information on us, in reality, how is it really hurting anyone?



and if you really do value your privacy that much, the get off the free services being offered to you

9/28/2011 1:25:41 PM

Didn't realize people still used myspace.

9/28/2011 3:33:35 PM

yeah I don't see a problem here... it's just trying to make stuff more relevant for you.

9/28/2011 3:40:11 PM

Quote :

"yeah I don't see a problem here... it's just trying to make stuff more relevant for you."

What if you don't want it to be relevant for you because you want to stumble upon new things? But they just throw the same everyday bullshit at you? I already know what I like, I don't need them reminding me.

9/28/2011 3:42:00 PM