posted February 24, 2012 10:00 AM            

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Welcome to the consumer opt out page for the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. Our participating companies are committed to transparency and choice.

Some of the ads you receive on Web pages are customized based on predictions about your interests generated from your visits over time and across different Web sites.

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posted February 24, 2012 05:24 PM            

Very annoying when you search for something and then everywhere you go on the web is advertising it to you.

posted February 24, 2012 06:23 PM            

I thought it pretty cool the way it scanned your browser to detect them

posted February 25, 2012 12:45 AM            

One week from today, March 1, Google’s much-criticized unified privacy policy will go into effect. While there is a great deal of debate over how much (or how little) the new privacy policy will affect users, it’s clear that people are concerned about the search giant’s increasingly thick folders of personal data it stores on each of us. What the policy most certainly does do, however, is makes it so the information Google has is more easily shared across its various services.

http://news.yahoo.com/delete-google-history-225454916.html

Please note: This doesn’t not stop Google from collecting all types of information about you. To do that, you’re going to have to go through a lot more steps, many of which the Electronic Frontier Foundation has spelled out here.

EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Protecting your rights in the Digital World
http://www.eff.org

posted February 25, 2012 12:54 AM            

How to Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Earlier this week, we showed you how to delete your Google Web History in order to prevent Google from combining your Web History data with the data it has about you on its other products to provide you with personalized ads or suggestions across all of its products. You may also wish to delete your YouTube Viewing and Search History, which can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, and health concerns.

Note that disabling Viewing and Search History in your YouTube account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

With Viewing and Search History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented. An individual concerned about privacy may also want to set up a secondary Google account for browsing and sharing YouTube videos. She could then download all of her existing YouTube videos to her computer, delete them from her primary Google profile, and then use a separate browser to upload them to a new secondary Google account. If you want to do more to reduce the records Google keeps, the advice in EFF's Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy white paper remains relevant.

The following steps will delete your viewing and search history on YouTube. If you have multiple YouTube accounts, you will have to complete these steps for each account.

posted February 25, 2012 03:36 AM            

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Remember, love can conquer the influences of the planets....It can even eliminate karma.

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posted February 27, 2012 09:02 AM            

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Originally posted by starzy54:
Its kinda creepy, seeing the navy blue polka dot dress i looked at online, follow me everywhere i go..so much though, that i decided i dont actually want the dress anymore lol

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lol so funny