Big Brother (Google) Is Watching You!

Here's a short video clip from The Washington Post illustrating how cookies snaffle onto you and then follow you around; "in a week of regular browsing, you might get tagged by 10,000 third-party cookies." That's on Chrome: Firefox doesn't allow them, by default.



Click here for the accompanying article by Geoffrey A. Fowler, entitled "Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software."

In a week of Web surfing on my desktop, I discovered 11,189 requests for tracker “cookies” that Chrome would have ushered right onto my computer but were automatically blocked by Firefox. These little files are the hooks that data firms, including Google itself, use to follow what websites you visit so they can build profiles of your interests, income and personality.