Online Tracking Archive

Spyware Warning: Web Trackers Are Spying on our Children on the Internet

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

Children and Internet? Almost all parents are concerned about the dangers such as violence, bullying, and pornography on the web. Safe alternatives suggest offers explicitly aimed at the young target audience, such as child-friendly sites for entertainment and educational sites. Nobody expects anything terrible on these colorful, seemingly harmless pages. But appearances are deceptive, as […]

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Why Should I Pay More? How to Avoid Dynamic Pricing

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

Who buys cookies in the supermarket, pays the same price as all other customers. But the Internet has its own laws: More and more retailers rely on “dynamic pricing”. Behind this is a sophisticated algorithm: what price a customer pays for a product depends not only on the time, but also on factors such as

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I Don’t Need To Change My IP Address, I Have Nothing To Hide: 6 Biggest Misconceptions About Internet Anonymity

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

Every trip to the Internet leaves traces, with which users can be clearly identified. Because when the router dials in it’s assigned a unique worldwide number combination, the IP address. Even weeks later you can find out when and with which IP address a website was visited. Why should you, therefore, change the IP address?

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Naked In The Net: What Our Internet Data Reveals About Us

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

We are increasingly online and continuously leaving data traces on the Internet. According to “Online Study 2017” by ARD and ZDF, more than 50 million people call information from the Internet every day in Germany alone. On average, every German is on the net for almost two and a half hours a day – 21

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Only The Tip Of The Iceberg: Data Scandal At Web Of Trust

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

The case was one of the biggest data scandals of 2016! Web of Trust (WOT) with 140 million users is one of the most popular browser extensions – turned out to be a nasty data spy or as the Germans called it “Datenschleuder” with translates to Sling Shot. The service collected information about the browsing

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Data Abuse: From Online Tracking To Re-Targeting – A Glossary Of Terror

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

Online marketing experts are trying to reach online customers efficiently and to spread advertising messages as precisely as possible. What makes sense from a marketing perspective is to target advertising as accurately as possible, however, for you as an Internet user this interferes with your privacy. Because the basis of personalized advertising is online tracking

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Mega Data-leech Google: Where Data Protection is Just Another Word

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

The 29th of October is the birthday of the Internet, on this day of the year 1969, two mainframes at American universities exchanged the first Internet message. 29 years later, Google set a milestone with the invention of their search engine. For users who took their first steps into the Internet at that time, Google

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Shake Off Trackers: Turn Off Personalized Advertising

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

German Chancellor Merkel summed pretty much everything up with her quote “Once you buy something on the internet, you’re being chased!” (Quote from the 5th of Nov. 2014) Do you know this feeling? You are looking for a pair of shoes, rummaging around an online shop, for example Zappos – and there you have the

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Stowaways in Websites: Malvertising – When Malware is Lurking in Advertising

2018-01-22 / By eBlogger

People have been complaining about annoying online advertising for a long time. Especially it appears on Google and Facebook and leaves many of us feeling uneasy about being watched. But there is still a much more dangerous reason to steer clear of online advertising by so-called Malvertising criminals. Through so-called “Malvertising” malicious software tries to

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