Internet Tracking on HAMB

I don't know what the significance is but I use Duck Duck Go search engine and they report 'Tracking Attempts' for various web sites visited. HAMB had 231 Tracking Attempts on my account in the last 7 days.

 

Sometimes sending @Ryan is a good way of checking things like this.

 

Like I said, I don't know if it is good or bad to be tracked.

 

Internet tracking is the monitoring of your online activity. The info they get is used to target you with advertising material that is related to what you do online, or worse, to gather your details for identity fraud. NO, it is not good to be tracked.

 

The gov't monitors for illegal activity, they have some legal requirements. The private sector can and does use tracking to build profiles, including identifying you, vital statistics and to advertise. They are not required to disclose what they are collecting and how it's used.

Now consider them knowing more about you than you do with data and statistics. Insurance, credit, banking. Do you really think it's "to enhance your online experience"?

This was over a decade ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

 

Thanks Ryan.

 

Thank you Ryan. I appreciate privacy and those that respect it!

 

You mean I don’t need a tinfoil hat to scroll here?

 

Thanx Ryan. I had a 50 year career as a petroleum engineer, used computers the entire time, ran numerical simulators to design oil recovery projects, wrote an analytical steam flood predictive model that Schlumberger adopted for their project management software. And I still HATE computers. Love what they promise, hate what they deliver.

 

Cheers Ryan.

Clears that right up.

 

Tracking movements via cell phone is insane too. We are in our RV for a few months. We arrived at current location. After visiting various places: Tractor Supply , RV shop , Harbor Freight, CAL Ranch ... Later at lunch I have ads from these various companies directed at me on my cell phone browser. As we sat in a Wendys for lunch , guess what ads started to pop up on my Gas Buddy app? LOL

 

Hello,

When the first edition of Facebook or Google search came on the scene, it had to battle the Internet Explorer and others that had their way with the world wide web. As the years rolled into the next phase of content and search parameters, we were/are all up against a wall and it reverts back to you. As a researcher that finds sources of information or just believing others who post, just stuff for you to believe. The term algorithm is created by computer folks to track and direct your searches and information sites as per their ideals.

As a first time user or even a veteran user, the term “needy user” was coined. Facebook had a great idea that allowed people to connect to their old friends and relatives where ever they happen to be in the big world. Simple posts led to more information and each time, recorded or listed as search parameters.

So, a new person typing in search topic already had places directed at the current page search. Page 1 is usually the one that has what your search provides. Page 2 and so forth gets less into your topic and more snippets of words the computer can identify. Not all searched information is on your question or search, but “close enough.”

Jnaki

So, as our son told us in the early days of computer search and wonderment, “Watch out who or where you search.” “One thing leads to another” a song title by the Fixx tells us that a search is not the best or safest place to roam around.

Thanks for not having a ton of stuff that goes along with internet searches and the way some sites are set up. We novices are at the mercy of current topics and as we have seen, information highway that strays from the center divider is usually off topic and theory only, not facts as searched in real history.

Even Facebook has stopped for most, as the answers now had different meanings and those that we once knew as young folks have actually nothing in common other than old memories. But, for reasons for everyone, we all change and thoughts + ways we live are different. So, some of those early Facebook posts are now static with no participation for years.

This is a partial list of what happens when people do internet searches. It is a wonder that “someone is listening to everyone’s posts. The worse thing is objects like “Siri and Alexa” types of links/devices that always listen… despite not asking directly or hitting a tab or two. YRMV

1. Access content store, user profile store, connection store, and/or action logs

2. Identify and retrieve information related to the posting user

3. Extract story attributes from retrieved information…