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Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: TRACKING - Recent Posts http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/tracking Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: TRACKING - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:06:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 hotdoge3 on "The most talked-about feature of Apple's iPhones and iPads location tracking" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9625#post-90322 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:48:03 +0000 hotdoge3 90322@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/22/google-responds-to-smartphone-location-tracking-uproar-says-android-is-opt-in/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/22/google-responds-to-smartphone-location-tracking-uproar-says-android-is-opt-in/</a> Then, last night the Wall Street Journal published an article with a new revelation: Apple and Google (with its Android devices) are both sending some location data from these devices back to their home servers. That sounds pretty sinister, but as a long-time Android user it didn’t ring true to me — I vividly remembered a checkbox that asked if I wanted to allow Google to collect anonymized data, which means it isn’t really a secret, and you can opt-out of it. Unsurprisingly, Google confirms that this is indeed the case. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983704576277101723453610.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADSecond" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983704576277101723453610.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADSecond</a> HTC Android phone collected its location every few seconds and transmitted the data to Google at least several times an hour. It also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any nearby Wi-Fi networks, as well as a unique phone identifier. Apple didn't respond to requests for comment. <a href="http://techns-news.blogspot.com/2011/04/q-and-smartphone-location-tracking-ap.html" rel="nofollow">http://techns-news.blogspot.com/2011/04/q-and-smartphone-location-tracking-ap.html</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jT9SqY6ry9jNQzb8Rmv-pxSl9ikg?docId=a5bd39ab364844c0bc885ac415fb0f83" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jT9SqY6ry9jNQzb8Rmv-pxSl9ikg?docId=a5bd39ab364844c0bc885ac415fb0f83</a> Q-and-A: Smartphone location tracking Q: What can I do to prevent this information from being collected? A: Fortunately, it's easy to turn off the tracking capability through the settings menus. The same goes for phones built on Google Inc.'s Android operating software. Unfortunately, doing so cripples a lot of applications that make smartphones "smart" in the first place, such as maps and the Foursquare social media service. Turning off tracking means those applications won't have access to your GPS locations either, making them useless. Related articles <a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-04-22/news/29463084_1_iphone-location-data-apple" rel="nofollow">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-04-22/news/29463084_1_iphone-location-data-apple</a> LONDON: iPhone users beware! Make sure you've got nothing to hide, or your phone might reveal your secret flings. It has emerged that iPhones have an 'infidelity app' that can secretly keep track of love cheats and could be viewed by a jealous spouse. Two British software developers recently exposed that the Apple iphone saves the user's locations and movements, along with a time and date stamp, and stores them in a file. It then copies the data to the owner's computer whenever the two are synchronised. "Apple has made it possible for almost anybody - a jealous spouse, a private detective - with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you've been <a href="http://www.wfmz.com/berksnews/27644165/detail.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wfmz.com/berksnews/27644165/detail.html</a> "I just started poking through the iPhone's back up in my laptop and I stumbled across the file," But some say tracking consumers is a sign of the times. "You look at Facebook, it's tracking everything from consumer likes to who your friends are. So I'm not surprised at all," said Raymond from Reading. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-iphone-20110423,0,1609775.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-iphone-20110423,0,1609775.story</a> The most talked-about feature of Apple's iPhones and iPads these days isn't a clever new software application. It's a hidden digital record on every device of the locations where it has been used — a numerical travelogue that effectively traces its owner's movements by noting the times and places it has been used. The "consolidated.db" file has been discussed by security researchers for months, but it didn't receive widespread attention until the O'Reilly Radar technology blog published an expose April 20. Within a day, two members of Congress had dashed off letters to Apple demanding more information, including an explanation of why the data were being collected and stored in unencrypted form. And now several European countries are launching their own investigations. Apple has remained mum. <a href="http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=drdjy3EK4-PblSMkxOGsv43bvmFbM&hl=en-US&ned=us" rel="nofollow">http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=drdjy3EK4-PblSMkxOGsv43bvmFbM&hl=en-US&ned=us</a> Results of about 383 related articles. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216088/Shock_iPhones_store_location_data_Gimme_a_break..._?taxonomyId=17" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216088/Shock_iPhones_store_location_data_Gimme_a_break..._?taxonomyId=17</a> record of every place you've been, or, at least, every place your phone's been. That data is stored in a file on your phone, unencrypted. Shock! <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383984,00.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383984,00.asp</a> I would like to know what Google and Apple are doing with the tracking data from our phones. It can't be anything good. <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20056626-245.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20056626-245.html</a> Tools wipe location data from (some) iPhones. !! Another tool, Location Blocker, goes further and wipes all historical data from the consolidated.db file and also blocks the device from storing any further cell and Wi-Fi location data. Step-by-step instructions for installing it are here. Idunnobutiwastold on "Browser audio video recording Firefox Opera & IE 9 tracking protection" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/8972#post-86270 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:42:20 +0000 Idunnobutiwastold 86270@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Thanks for all the links, guys! :) notblocklox on "Browser audio video recording Firefox Opera & IE 9 tracking protection" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/8972#post-86231 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:44:41 +0000 notblocklox 86231@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hotdoge, it's hard to follow all your links - LOL However, I'll add 2 links because I think it's an interesting reading; and of course installing one of these tools can make browsing more secure. <blockquote>Those who are looking to have more control over their cookies in all forms can find some help in two add-ons for Firefox: BetterPrivacy and Abine. </blockquote> . <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/">BetterPrivacy</a> <a href="http://www.abine.com/index.php">Abine - Stop all kinds of hidden tracking</a> graylox hotdoge3 on "Browser audio video recording Firefox Opera & IE 9 tracking protection" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/8972#post-86227 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:01:04 +0000 hotdoge3 86227@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1863189/mozilla-outs-automatic-browser-audio-video-recording" rel="nofollow">http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1863189/mozilla-outs-automatic-browser-audio-video-recording</a> Mozilla outs automatic browser audio and video recording The Rainbow add-on generates files for video and audio data in either Theora or Vorbis formats respectively, storing them in an Ogg container. The files are accessible through the document object model (DOM) via the HTML5 file API, which can then be used to upload the files onto a server. Mozilla provides sample code to show how simple the whole process is, and coming in at less than 30 lines, it's hard to argue against the outfit's claims. However, the idea of browsers being able to record audio and video by some simple Javascript commands does lead to privacy concerns. One has to hope that any permissions mechanisms Mozilla and others come up with will be able to successfully prevent any malicious use. <a href="http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20022442-12.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20022442-12.html</a> Firefox 4 beta 7 gets much, much faster. <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/opera-browser-shows-off-tab-stacking-in-new-beta/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/opera-browser-shows-off-tab-stacking-in-new-beta/</a> <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/microsoft-tracking-protection/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/microsoft-tracking-protection/</a> Microsoft Builds Online Tracking Blocking Feature Into IE9 The new feature will let users easily keep lists of websites that track what they do online, and block any site from logging their web activity, the company announced Tuesday. The new feature, called “Tracking Protection,” will be bundled into IE9’s next beta release early next year, and is intended to give users control over what widgets and scripts display — and pull in data — when they visit a given website. <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/zombie-cookie-settlement/#seealsof9d71def0395c35e3536e534eaeab01d" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/zombie-cookie-settlement/#seealsof9d71def0395c35e3536e534eaeab01d</a> Online tracking firm Quantcast has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it secretly used Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash plug-in to re-create tracking cookies after users deleted them, the company said Saturday. More than $1 million of the settlement will go to fund privacy groups chosen by the plaintiffs, and 25% will go to the lawyers who filed the suit. It’s unlikely that any money will go to the class, since it essentially includes every internet user in the U.S. “zombie cookies,” since unique ids handed out by Quantcast would return in a user’s browser even after deleting the company’s cookie. Quantcast is used by thousands of sites to measure the number of unique visitors and to get information on the kinds of people visiting their site — athletic, older, interested in food, etc. The company’s clients include of the net’s biggest websites including ESPN, Hulu and MTV.com. Those who are looking to have more control over their cookies in all forms can find some help in two add-ons for Firefox: BetterPrivacy and Abine. hotdoge3 on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-43117 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:03:10 +0000 hotdoge3 43117@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Just set Third-party cookies to no,a third-party cookie is a cookie from a site that you not on so you don't need it,in 8 hour's only have 10 with Firefox in IE is nill, in IE > Privacy >Advanced > override automatic cooke handing all to Block yes fist & third pardy cookies untick allow session cookies no,do this to all,log out hit ctrl-alt-delete two times & tipe in Administrator Enter & do the same or they will jump over PS only do this if you don't use IE & use Firefox & host file, spywareBlaster so on is a help. mjfisonline@mail.com on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-43053 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:08:39 +0000 mjfisonline@mail.com 43053@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ sounds like you got some spyware get avg to remove them quick: <a href="http://free.avg.com" rel="nofollow">http://free.avg.com</a> free or full will work fine when you finish intalling then restart update then open main dubble click on resedint shield click scan tracing cookies and remove automatically this will show a little message in the right corner of your screen when you to that site that it has been detected and deleted another way to test this is download firefox <a href="http://firefox.com" rel="nofollow">http://firefox.com</a> it gives you 1 tracking cookie every time you open it if you did this right avg will detect it it should just give you a little message in the right corner and then if it does its deleted and if you really wanna find some then go scan whole computer/slow scan and let it scan over night this could take all night so let it do that when you are just doing a normal scan do auto so if it needs to slow down so your computer does not it will or if it can spped up not effecting anything. well good luck!! :) (sorry its so long) Lee on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6607 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:02:10 +0000 Lee 6607@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ pinkster don't refer to me in the third sense. You used an abreviation and other words not appropriate for forums. If you wish to use that kind of notation your words will be snipped. pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6603 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:29:59 +0000 pinkster 6603@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ kewl, that's good bubby... man, maybe we could've avoided some of this if lee had just said "we don;t use that stuff". here's a little reading for you, if ya gotta minute. be well man... <a href="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/theluddite/2007/06/luddite_0607" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/theluddite/2007/06/luddite_0607</a> BuBBy on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6591 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:41:33 +0000 BuBBy 6591@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ It appears you missed the point I was getting at - if you have some form of spyware or similar installed on your computer. You will probably get that cookie appearing REGARDLESS whichever website you go to. Anyway if you are happy you have fixed your spyware problem on your PC, I'll close this. pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6589 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:07:46 +0000 pinkster 6589@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ naaah, just blocked it. it appears to be gone. i don;t need to open myself to potential malware infestation; ;) i KNOW my sites don;t do that... tho some of my old free ones do.. BuBBy on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6588 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:56:21 +0000 BuBBy 6588@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Point is the cookie will keep coming back until you get rid of the additional baggage spyware/toolbar/add-on that is putting the cookie up. If I turn off absolutely all spyware protection, ad filtering, and disable all add-ons - I still cannot get that cookie to appear when surfing around this site. Which leads me to the conclusion your PC has something "special" about it that nobody else's does. In terms of what software I am (normally) running - <a href="http://lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_plus.php">AdAware Plus</a>, <a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/">Spybot S&D</a>, <a href="http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html">SpywareBlaster</a>, <a href="http://www.spywareterminator.com/app/features.aspx">Spyware Terminator</a>, <a href="http://discount.admuncher.com/">AdMuncher</a>, and <a href="http://www.eset.com/">NOD32</a>. I've got lots of other stuff that I use when needed, but these are the products running 24x7. so perhpas you are right. or perhaps it does come from this site, hard to tell, as it is the only place i've visited! i own several websites, and i don;t spy on any of the people that visit them. OK. I suggest you remove the cookies completely. Then open ONLY one of your "several websites". If the cookie re-appears, you can "take it up with yourself". :) Hope that helps. pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6587 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:45:11 +0000 pinkster 6587@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ gents... mah bad? hard to tell, i have visited GAOTD twice now with no ill effect since blocking that cookie. of note, looking thru firewall logs, it appears it may be part of that MS "genuine advantage " crap phoning home and spying...<sigh> regardless, thanks for the time... i do really dig the site man, ;) that's why i asked. thank you , sense... pink grahsshoppha pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6586 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:26:33 +0000 pinkster 6586@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ hmmmmmmm....let's see. i DID in fact block it in internet options, be interesting to see if it turns up again here. further; every time i've gone to GAOTD i have been requested to save a cookie from 66.__.__.-- i haven;t bothered to allow it with no ill effect. i'll have to run a scan...btw, what do you consider "decent" malware scanners? ;) i have many to choose from, i bet including whatever YOUR favorite is. ;) generally i don;t have much of a prob with spyware...which was why i found it rather surprising to keep getting hit with this thing after visiting your site.. not even saying it is this site's fault...hence the question, wt is up widdat? in my original query. got adaware running at the moment, see if i find it again. i wouldn't care if not for it's persistence; i don't like things "backdooring" my machine under any circumstance, and generally things that return after a throurough scrubbing of caches and a reboot make me wonder...sorry to have given you offense, as that seems to be how it was taken. sure enough; it's back!!!!!! i just physically DELETED every reference to it in my machine, again before going online and coming here. from what i've gleaned from google, it's a company that keeps track of banner advertisements. it lists as a dataminer. and it definitely screws up the pc's connection. perhaps i need to take this up with the old ISP instead. so perhpas you are right. or perhaps it does come from this site, hard to tell, as it is the only place i've visited! i'll get back to ya.. thanks for the feedback and suggestions. peace p BuBBy on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6585 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:14:12 +0000 BuBBy 6585@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Blocking the cookie won't fix a spyware problem though. playboy85 on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6584 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:47:36 +0000 playboy85 6584@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ You can block this cookie from your system through your internet options. BuBBy on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6583 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:09:30 +0000 BuBBy 6583@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I have just turned on prompting for all cookies - and been to the forums both download sites and to wikifortio and guess what? Absolutely not even one single request for revsci.net. In fact, after visiting this site several times in the past (who would've guessed) I still don't have a revsci cookie on my PC. Several other cookies - but nothing else. I think your little problems are yours alone. Always a good thing to check your facts before throwing around accusations. I suggest you scan your PC with a decent antispyware program. Then visit microsoft.com or google.com and see if they also have your revsci.net spyware. Go bother them - because I cannot replicate your spyware cookie claims on this site. pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6578 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:45:04 +0000 pinkster 6578@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ further...i think you may need to revisit your definitions of "profanity", mr. moderator. JMO pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6577 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:44:11 +0000 pinkster 6577@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ cookies that track surfing habits and "phone home" are most DEFINITLY "spyware"... they aren;t being used to identify a computer...they are designed to track people and spy on them. i own several websites, and i don;t spy on any of the people that visit them. indeed, most sites that DO track people don;t have long life expectancies when people find out. big difference between harmless "cookies" and stuff that spys on people. NOT cool. as for profanity?? which ?? gimme a break....what, the word crap?? LOL... sorry bud, no idea what you're complaining about. that said, so..............why the spyware all the sudden? pretty lame, dude. there is NO REASON to "track" users on the internet other than sleazy folks seeking profit. and that's it. so...anything worth saying on the matter this time, mr. moderator? or just gonna sidestep again? just curious. really brings down the quality of your site, IMHO jimi BuBBy on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6576 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:14:14 +0000 BuBBy 6576@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Perhaps a little education on the issue is in order? <a href="http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=246" rel="nofollow">http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=246</a> Lee on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6571 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:09:00 +0000 Lee 6571@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ You get tracking cookies from most sites. Quit the profanity also. pinkster on "tracking cookies?? WTF is up widdat???" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1146#post-6570 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:40:57 +0000 pinkster 6570@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ every time i visit GAOTD, i get hit with a tracking cookie form revsci.net... i mean EVERY SINGLE TIME, and it is [snipped] off. i remove it with anti malware scanners, physically delete the file, and it's a persistant one...that only shows up while visiting/after visiting this site, and i think it's rather lame...hence the querie, [snipped] is up widdat?? this is a great site, but this [snipped] is lame...and it is DEFINITLEY from here, as i just re-ran a scan again and got it AGAIN...same thing, and this is THE ONLY SITE I HAVE VISITED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you guys need to DROP THE SPYWARE [snipped]!!! this is LAME! jeezis! jimi <a href="mailto:jimi@revsci.txt">jimi@revsci.txt</a> jimi@revsci[2].txt