Digital Trackers
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Digital Trackers
Surely enough, upon Inspect Element inquiry, most of these sites were running multiple third-party cookies, collecting the data of their visitors and selling their personal information. It is not enough for these websites to depersonalize the missing and deceased, reducing their names into analytic benchmarks; website visitors themselves become met... See more
charlie squire • Digital Graveyards
Alex Dobrenko added
In our post-privacy world of pervasive social-media sharing, GPS tracking, cellphone-tower triangulation, wireless sensor monitoring, browser-cookie targeting, face-recognition detecting, consumer-intention profiling, and endless other means by which our
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
But in the age of ✨ networked computing ✨, this individual model of privacy just doesn’t scale anymore. There are too many exponentially intersecting relationships for any of us to keep in our head. It’s no longer just about what we tell a friend or the tax collector or even a journalist. It’s the digital footprint that we often unknowingly leave i... See more
Jenny (Phire) Zhang • left alone, together
sari added
Imagine if you could tell not just how many people were visiting your website (your traffic) but for each individual visitor you could tell where they came from (both on the internet and geographically), what browser and operating system they were using at the time, what keywords they used to find your site and on which search engine, the page they
... See moreCalvin Jones • Understanding Digital Marketing: Marketing Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation: Volume 1
rule, at least) underhanded cyber espionage going on here. We’re simply collecting the information that’s routinely recorded when a visitor comes to our website, then using analytics software to aggregate it and present it in a format that lets us view trends and make informed decisions.
Calvin Jones • Understanding Digital Marketing: Marketing Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation: Volume 1
Every day, I track the digital trails that people leave as they make their way across the web. From the buttons or keys we click or tap, I try to understand what we really want, what we will really do, and who we really are.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
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