Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking

Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 28, 2013 | ELIZABETH DWOSKIN

[Adder]

I have numerous gmail accounts and they always ask for a number and I never give them a correct one. I don’t think it has any bearing, at least for me.

Google + accounts are another matter. But there are ways around that nonsense of “proving you are REAL” garbage also.

I like the idea of using numbers like the White House, etc. Think I will steal that one. And...ooo!...NSA would be a good one!

I am not a fan of ‘puter fascism: google doesn’t own the web...I do not particularly care what they want.

[Nifster]

and the only good news out of that is that Windows 8 is a dog of a program (probably made to Ocare specs)

[lbryce]

I began using these programs you posted on a previous thread. It worked to the extent that certain sites wouldn't even allow me to log in, not acknowledging I even had an account with them, didn't allow me to create an account, causing confusion, being mystified, clueless as to what the problem was, until it finally hit me that I had enabled these programs to do just this very thing.

Disabling them returned conditions to the way I had always been familiar when using the web.

So, these programs do seem to work.

Thanks for posting these links.

[TheOldLady]

Thank you about a ton. Maybe more.

[steve86]

My Google accounts ARE attached to one of our Tracfones and we have received only one call — an automated call from Google Security saying that our password might have been compromised and an attempted login from another location had been blocked. Emails from Google came at the same time. I was glad to get this call.

Other than some tinfoil scenarios, I’m not sure what the big concern about the phone connection is.

[21stCenturion]

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[bigheadfred]

pish posh

if they dont know me by now they will never never know me at allllllll

the best news is i gotsted my dads new raingutters up on saturday after him yammering at me all summer and it (finally) rained like a b yesterday and ma said woohoo that old man is happy

[Black Agnes]

They undoubtedly have a voice print for each of us.

[bigheadfred]

i sended them a fecal sample labeled long john just a hopin’

[Rebelbase]

I’ve got a tracphone also. There’s some kind of interference with it and my computer speakers and I get a signal crackle through the speakers a couple of seconds before a text ringtone goes off.

About once an hour the speakers give a similar but not as strong crackle like the phone is receiving a signal.

Maybe the phone company pings it at regular intervals to see how many phones are online in the network in a particular tower area?

[Tunehead54]

I once thought it a good idea to have an untraceable phone but anywhere I went it seemed I had to give up some ID - Now I could really use one. Any clues?

[Tunehead54]

Oops - More coffee needed ... FReepmail is fine. ;-)

[houeto]

That was frikken hilarious Laz!!

[Lazamataz]

:)