Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
by
Julia Angwin
Published 25 Feb 2014
Many people believe that they can use Google Chrome’s “Incognito” mode or Microsoft Internet Explorer’s “InPrivate Browsing” mode to avoid being monitored online. But that is not true. Incognito mode is privacy protection against one threat: the person with whom you share a computer. It simply wipes away the tracking cookies that were generated during a Web-browsing session, once the session is completed. However, the websites that you visited while in Incognito mode still receive information from you—and so do the trackers on those sites. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Incognito mode is built for one thing: browsing porn.
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Calo says that market: Calo, “Digital Market Manipulation.” Benjamin Reed Shiller, an economics: Benjamin Reed Shiller, “First Degree Price Discrimination Using Big Data” (Working Paper Series, Brandeis University, August 20, 2013), http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/economics/RePEc/brd/doc/Brandeis_WP58R.pdf. Incognito mode is privacy protection: Google, Inc., “Incognito Mode (Browse in Private),” google.com, accessed August 22, 2013, https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en. My next stop was the advertising industry’s: “Consumer Opt-Out,” Network Advertising Initiative, http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Even then, the industry’s list: 2013 Krux Cross Industry Study.
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
by
Pedro Domingos
Published 21 Sep 2015
(Sorry, Amazon.) If you watch different kinds of videos at home and for work, keep two accounts on YouTube, one for each, and YouTube will learn to make the corresponding recommendations. And if you’re about to watch some videos of a kind that you ordinarily have no interest in, log out first. Use Chrome’s incognito mode not for guilty browsing (which you’d never do, of course) but for when you don’t want the current session to influence future personalization. On Netflix, adding profiles for the different people using your account will spare you R-rated recommendations on family movie night. If you don’t like a company, click on their ads: this will not only waste their money now, but teach Google to waste it again in the future by showing the ads to people who are unlikely to buy the products.
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Silk Road
by
Eileen Ormsby
Published 1 Nov 2014
The hole that lead [sic] to the hacker gaining access to other vendors’ images and postage options has been plugged. I’ve sent a message to all vendors asking them to update their images and postage options if their listings were affected, so hopefully the listings will be back to normal soon. I’ve turned off incognito mode on all accounts, so if you were using incognito browsing before, you’ll need to re-enable it on your setting page. The message that was sent to vendors was: Dear xxxxxxxxxx, This is an automated message to all sellers at Silk Road: Many of your listings were recently altered without your consent.
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
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Kevin Mitnick
,
Mikko Hypponen
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Robert Vamosi
Published 14 Feb 2017
Shut down the private browser window, and all traces of the sites you visited will disappear from your PC or device. What you exchange for privacy is that unless you bookmark a site while using private browsing, you can’t go back to it; there’s no history—at least not on your machine. As much as you may feel invincible using a private window on Firefox or the incognito mode on Chrome, your request for private website access, like your e-mails, still has to travel through your ISP—your Internet service provider, the company you pay for Internet or cellular service—and your provider can intercept any information that’s sent without being encrypted. If you access a website that uses encryption, then the ISP can obtain the metadata—that you visited such and such site at such and such date and time.
The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
by
Matthew Hindman
Published 24 Sep 2018
Relatively few visitors choose to log in, though, and most readers use multiple devices or even multiple browsers over the course of a month. When cookies are not tied to a specific registered user, every computer and every browser counts as a unique reader. Simply clearing cookies, or browsing in “private” or “incognito” mode to escape a paywall, creates the same problem. Industry reports estimate that the unique-visitor-to-actual-person ratio is four to one or higher on many sites.12 This problem has persisted even as real-time analytics platforms like Chartbeat and Omniture have allowed sites to gather increasingly rich data on user behavior.
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol
by
Holly Glenn Whitaker
Published 9 Jan 2020
The industry has absolutely no liability, because how could it possibly be accountable to a disease that some people just have? 5 The Right Question: Is Alcohol Getting in the Way of My Life? I’d say the most common thing to do in the year before quitting booze is to hunch over a laptop and miserably type Am I an alcoholic? into Google at 1 a. m. (in Incognito Mode, of course). I did it many, many times. Sometimes the internet told me I was, sometimes it told me I wasn’t. —CATHERINE GRAY I once went to an AA meeting where the speaker got up to tell how she came to recovery. She was young, just twenty-three, and she hadn’t started drinking until she entered college.
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
by
Gabriel Weinberg
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Lauren McCann
Published 17 Jun 2019
In the run-up to the 2012 U.S. presidential election and again in 2018, the search engine DuckDuckGo (founded by Gabriel) conducted studies where individuals searched on Google for the same political topics, such as gun control and climate change. It discovered that people got significantly different results, personalized to them, when searching for the same topics at the same time. This happened even when they were signed out and in so-called incognito mode. Many people don’t realize that they are getting tailored results based on what a mathematical algorithm thinks would increase their clicks, as opposed to a more objective set of ranked results. The Filter Bubble When you put many similar filter bubbles together, you get echo chambers, where the same ideas seem to bounce around the same groups of people, echoing around the collective chambers of these connected filter bubbles.
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
by
Bruce Schneier
Published 3 Sep 2018
Stephanie Clifford and Quentin Hardy (14 Jul 2013), “Attention, shoppers: Store is tracking your cell,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper-stores-are-tracking-your-cell.html. 58The company Alphonso provides apps: Sapna Maheshwari (28 Dec 2017), “That game on your phone may be tracking what you’re watching on TV,” New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html. 58Facebook has a patent on using: Ben Chen and Facebook Corporation (22 Mar 2016), “Systems and methods for utilizing wireless communications to suggest connections for a user,” US Patent 9,294,991, https://patents.justia.comm/patent/9294991. 58Did an automatic license plate scanner: Catherine Crump et al. (17 Jul 2013), “You are being tracked: How license plate readers are being used to record Americans’ movements,” American Civil Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/071613-aclu-alprreport-opt-v05.pdf. 58Surveillance companies know a lot about us: Dylan Curren (30 Mar 2018), “Are you ready? Here’s all the data Facebook and Google have on you,” Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy. 58We never lie to our search engines: Settings like Chrome’s “incognito mode” or Firefox’s “private browsing” keep the browser from saving your browsing history. It does not prevent any websites you visit from tracking you. 59Already, all new Toyota cars track speed: Hans Greimel (6 Oct 2015), “Toyota unveils new self-driving safety tech, targets 2020 autonomous drive,” Automotive News, http://www.autonews.com/article/20151006/OEM06/151009894/toyota-unveils-new-self-driving-safety-tech-targets-2020-autonomous. 59In 2015, John Deere told: Dana Bartholomew (2015), “Long comment regarding a proposed exemption under 17 U.S.C. 1201,” Deere and Company, https://copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%2021/John_Deere_Class21_1201_2014.pdf. 60Apple censored apps that tracked: Stuart Dredge (30 Sep 2015), “Apple removed drone-strike apps from App Store due to ‘objectionable content,’” Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/30/apple-removing-drone-strikes-app.
iPad: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition
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J.D. Biersdorfer
Published 21 Nov 2012
For example, just trace the outline of the letter G across the iPad’s glass and Dolphin can take you to the Google home page. Google Chrome. You can’t get very far on the Web without running into a Google site or app, and the company happens to make a free, iPad-ready version of its popular Chrome browser. Like its desktop counterpart, mobile Chrome offers the same clean interface, history-free “Incognito” mode for private browsing, and an unlimited number of open page tabs. If you want to roam with Chrome and you use it at home, sign in to the mobile edition and sync up bookmarks, tabs, and passwords from your computer to your iPad. Chapter 6. Keep in Touch with Email and Messaging You’ll learn to: Send and receive email from all your accounts Set up the new VIP and Favorites mailboxes Send text messages with Apple’s free service Tweet from the slew of apps that now support Twitter EMAIL IS PART OF your everyday life, and being able to compose, send, and receive mail on your smartphone means you can be on the go and still stay in touch, even if you have to hunch over a Lilliputian keyboard, squinting and pecking on a tiny screen.
Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants
by
Maurice E. Stucke
and
Ariel Ezrachi
Published 14 May 2020
The more data that are extracted, the more carefully the advertising can be targeted, the more money the advertisers will be willing to pay, and the greater the Gamemakers’ cut.75 With all these incentives, the toxic competition keeps spawning new data-extraction technologies to degrade our privacy, our autonomy, and our very well-being. If you, like most people, use Google’s Chrome browser, you are being tracked, even in incognito mode.76 Ditto for Android phone users.77 Think you can avoid Google or Facebook if you use a privacy-friendly browser on your Apple device? Think again. Whenever you visit a website that uses Google’s advertising services (of which Google claims there are more than two million sites, reaching 90 percent of users worldwide), you are being tracked.78 Even if you install ad blockers, the Gamemakers can co-opt or circumvent many of them.79 If you have a Facebook account, Facebook is tracking you even when you are not logged into its social network.