{"id":2541,"date":"2009-09-07T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2009\/09\/07\/2541\/support-for-ad-tracking-opt-out\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T23:00:30","slug":"support-for-ad-tracking-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2009\/09\/2541\/support-for-ad-tracking-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for ad-tracking opt out"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7072653.stm\">US privacy advocates and consumer bodies are seeking the creation of an opt-out list for internet users who do not want to be tracked by advertisers.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;do not track&#8221; list would prevent companies from tailoring adverts based on a user&#8217;s web habits.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I really like this idea. If I want something, I will search for it. My web habits are unlikely to turn up anything I want to actually buy as while they are indicative of my interests&#8230; most of the stuff that would show up would end up being DVDs or toys or any number of other things that I would only buy with money I had spare.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, when I fancied buying non-essential luxury items.<\/p>\n<p>Plus I&#8217;ve never liked the idea of being tracked. If advertisers want to find out my habits and interests, they can damn well send me a questionnaire. I like those.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moretomorrow.co.uk\/feed\/\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US privacy advocates and consumer bodies are seeking the creation of an opt-out list for internet users who do not want to be tracked by advertisers. The &#8220;do not track&#8221; list would prevent companies from tailoring adverts based on a user&#8217;s web habits. I really like this idea. If I want something, I will search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2009\/09\/2541\/support-for-ad-tracking-opt-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Support for ad-tracking opt out<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}