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“For the 2006 fiscal year, the company reported $10.492 billion in total advertising revenues and only $112 million in licensing and other revenues.”
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And it just so happens that tracking people online has proven to be immensely lucrative: True, but so is the opposite: it doesn’t mean your privacy is not being exposed or abused. “If your browsing is being tracked, your browser is sending telemetry, or any kind of usage statistics is being collected, it does not mean your privacy is being exposed or abused.” I disagree : any exploitation by someone else of my sensitive data that I did not freely consent to is an invasion of my privacy, even if it could actually be anonymized in a trustworthy way, and furthermore, even if that happens only locally on my machine. Data de-anonymization techniques exist too : īut what if exploited data could magically be made really irreversibly anonymous ? That’s how some surveillance capitalists are trying to redefine privacy to be able to exploit commercially “anonymized” sensitive user data for advertisers while looking like the good guys. The information will often come with an IP address at least, which can be a strong identifier. As long as no part of the information has a label on it that can identify you as a human person (name, age, race, etc) then you really don’t need to worry. > If your browsing is being tracked, your browser is sending telemetry, or any kind of usage statistics is being collected, it does not mean your privacy is being exposed or abused. If companies you can’t even identify can track you and send YOU ads for junk you don’t want and would never click on, you have every right to block them if you want. That’s not privacy or even good security. What’s 99 squared or raised to the fourth power? If you trust 10,000 parties with your data, OK. IP’s only one identifier, there are many more.Įxample, If I go to Buzz Feed, one of the most click hungry and ad sellingist sites on earth (take this quiz and we’ll tell you if you’re cake or a railroad spike), I can watch my tracker counter zoom to 99, that’s as high as it goes, no idea what the true value is. If you trust your Internet Provider (not possible in USA, they now track and sell your data) and the myriad others you interact with as you browse along with everyone they send data to, the 4th, 5th etc.
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If 1000 people share your IP on a regular basis, no problem. If your IP is revealed, and it is unless you block it, you’re known to that level. He doesn’t use a service, I know that, so it’s almost certainly him. Neighbor I can’t see is mowing his lawn I can hear it.