Do Not Track. An Internet Privacy Tool that Should be in Your Arsenal to Avoid Company Tracking | Michael L. Aaronson MD: Kidney Doctor
14 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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GoDaddy email and calendar software does not track you. Google Calendar and Gmail does. How do I know? I use a tool called Do Not Track Plus (click for the Mozilla Firefox Plugin). Please check out the figure above. Note that in the upper right hand corner of the screen the Do Not Track Program displays a “green zero.” This indicator tells you that you are not being tracked on the GoDaddy website. How wonderful! No commercials, no ads, no tracking. Perhaps GoDaddy email and calendar software is very well worth the 10 dollars a year? That said, I must confess and come clean. I have to share that I, Michael L. Aaronson, MD, was contributing to the privacy problem which has become the plague of the internet. I was using a widget called “Outbrain” to help display related post information on my website. I thought the program was great in that it provided other provocative and profound articles to the customers I serve. It seemed harmless enough. It turns out that the program was tracking my users as they traveled around the internet. How embarrassing! The preacher on his soap box was allowing Quantcast, without his knowledge or approval, to track his clients. I acted quickly, removing Outbrain. I searched for an alternative to allow me to post related articles. I found a program called “Related Items” gifted by MyWebsiteAdvisor which allows me to avoid tracking my loyal subscribers. Note that I now do not have even one tracking code on my website. Nice!
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