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Or you could just use NoScript and a hosts file from mvps.org
Or you could just use NoScript and a hosts file from mvps.org
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If I'm reading this right, you're opting out of the tracking that would enable them to target the ads, but you're not opting out of the actual ads, right? So you're just replacing ads for things you might actually want with ads for random things?
@Cant_stop_the_rock:
Of course someone will inform me that an ad blocker would block the actual ads, which of course I know and I use an ad blocker myself, but that's not what this article is about.
Can you manually edit the list? Because I use statcounter on my webpage, and my cookies are always getting flagged, even though I need them.
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I'd rather get targeted ads than have web advertising be so unprofitable that my favorite blogs/sites either fold or move to subscription models.
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@madanthony: I'd like to be able to PICK WHAT I GET ADS FOR.
\"I might be buying [x] at some point, give me ads for [x].\"
\"Sir, we don't get many sponsors selling gnutella brownie mix.\"
\"Then you obviously don't know your target demographic.\"
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I'd like to be able to PICK WHAT I GET ADS FOR.
@YourTechSupport: THIS
They must think that we'll either lie or leave stuff out. That's the only reason I can think of that they wouldn't just let us tell them \"Show me ads for A but not B\".
They should at least let us say \"Not B\". If I could avoid every ad targeted at drunk frat boys I would be very happy.
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@YourTechSupport: There's open source Nutella? Or did you figure out how to spread a file sharing network on a PB sandwich?
@YourTechSupport: Damn you for your good ideas! *Starts searching internet for nutella flavored brownie recipes*
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Am I unusually dense, or is this not working with Firefox 3.5? Anyone else having this problem?
Um, doesn't turning off 3rd-party cookies in Firefox yield the same result? If not a better one?
@BillyShears: That's what it says on the plugin page:
If you block all third party cookies, there isn't that much of a point in opt-ing out of targeted advertising, since most advertisers will not have the means to track your web surfing anyhow.I guess it's for people who can't or won't block all third party cookies.
By installing TACO, these opt-out cookies are automatically installed into the Firefox browser, and are made permanant.
How?
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Ah, good, a plugin for my friends who are already in the \"We will not pay for Facebook because we are cheap and also teh internets is for free!\" or whatever it is group on FB and who will inevitably bemoan the destruction of their fave social networking site because stuff has to be paid for somehow!
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The other option is to eat to cookies.
Done and Done.