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The "don't let advertisers use my advertising ID" thing, that is.
Every unblocked site I've visited, today, has been covered with ads for terminal servers -- from the company I already get them from, no less.
Privacy, my @rse. It's placebo security.
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Once upon a time, I clicked the DoubleClick Opt-Out option. It put an opt-out cookie on my system with a unique ID. It's my nature to check such things immediately (OCD ?). So now, by opting out of DoubleClick, I gave them the best cookie ever if I kept it. My lesson was learned.
My browser (FireFox), between settings and add-ons, blocks virtually everything, and, as needed, I opt-in on my own terms. This, by the way, lends a certain peace and quiet to my browsing.
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They call themselves respectable, professional organisations, but they act exactly like spammers.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Once upon a time, I clicked the DoubleClick Opt-Out option
The best way I found to deal with organizations like that was to blacklist their webserver. No more ads, and since my browser won't talk to them anymore to download their ads, no more tracking either. Sadly, I switch from IE to Chrome, and it doesn't have such a feature. Oh, and as a bonus, doing that made my back button work again too 
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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My boss uses what he call honey pot mail addresses whenever he signs up for something. If he buys some tech from a company and registers any sort of account or does anything where they want his email he creates an address specifically for that company to be able to see which ones gives away his information.
I think he said Adobe was a huge culprit.
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Maybe ad blocking with a custom HOSTS file will help. Google it if you are interested.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So hold on: to get this mythical privacy, I've either got to use a browser that's made by the main offender, or one that's back-door governed by the main offender?
I refer the learned gentleman to this posting[^] and this posting[^].
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I could nail my tongue to the desk, as well... In fact, I think I'd rather nail my tongue to the desk.
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So which browser are you using? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sometimes Opera, sometimes Maxthon.
Y'know, the two that are the most advanced and always win all the accolades, unlike chrome and firefox.
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And I wouldn't trust Maxthon if you paid me:
In 2016 computer security researchers from Fidelis Cybersecurity and Exatel discovered the browser surreptitiously sending sensitive browsing and system data—such as ad blocker status, websites visited, searches conducted and applications installed with their version numbers—to remote servers located in Beijing, China.
According to Maxthon, the data is sent as part of the company's 'User Experience Improvement Program' and that it is "voluntary and totally anonymous." However, researchers found the data still being collected and transmitted to remote servers even after users explicitly opted-out of the program.
The researchers further found the data being transmitted over an unencrypted connection (HTTP), leaving users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Fidelis' Chief Security Officer, Justin Harvey, noted the data "...contains almost everything you would want in conducting a reconnaissance operation to know exactly where to attack. Knowing the exact operating system and installed applications, and browsing habits it would be trivial to send a perfectly crafted spearphish to the victim or perhaps set up a watering hole attack on one of their most frequented websites."
Maxthon Browser Sends Sensitive Data to China | SecurityWeek.Com[^]
Maxthon browser vulnerable to Chinese cyberespionage and MitM attacks[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If you opt in to any product's user experience program, it will send data home.
To me, it doesn't matter if the company is in China or America; they're both foreign powers, and I trust neither of them to look after my interests.
The Maxthon UXP is off, by default, BTW. With apple, google, and microsoft, you don't get the option to not have them reap all your private data, so guess which of the three companies I trust more.
I do actually allow them access to some data, because I have a user account with them and I synchronise stuff and share pages across machines, which means that that information has to pass through their servers (which is probably what the paranoid idiots in your article were talking about). I also do the same with Opera.
And that comment by Justin Harvey, at the end of your quote, is just plain ridiculous. What, because I'm one of the millions of people who use Sync Preferences, Cloud Pages, and Upload to Cloud functions, a bunch of browser devs are going to mount an assault on me? Talk about stirring up paranoia.
I've used their kit since the MyIE shell, which made IE4 way more useful (with tabs, etc), and no Chinese jackboots have been anywhere near my door.
You're much more likely to have intrusions from google -- and if you're using itunes or winio, things have already gone far, far beyond simple intrusion.
... By a foreign power.
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Your advertising ID is a Google created thing that allows companies to track your behaviour and it was created to mimic browser cookies. Instead of just tracking websites you visit, it is used to link up app usage with your ad ID, thereby allowing in-app advertising to be targeted to your interests.
So instead of just worrying about cookies, you get to worry about cookies and OS specific ad IDs.
Another reason Google changed their byline from "Do no evil" to "Do the right thing". The right thing for them.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Looks like I can configure Maxthon to use it, so I'll give it a go.
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<font size="32">WHY2K?</font>
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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<font size="32">!Y?</font>
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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UR2L8!
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I am NOT too late. It was just a typo. I wanted to write:
WHY3K?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Y3K == SEP
SEP / DNA[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not according to his system clock: he still has 84 years!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try Y2K38[^] instead. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I know the fact of having all the history on any project is far more important than the space it occupies, but let's say I have ended a project, three or four years ago and I simply know the final version is the right one as they have been working in production 24x7 all those years.
At this point I would like to keep only the final version and delete from disk all the previous changes.
Is it possible to make this using SVN or GIT?
I've tried to find it on The Internet without much luck...
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