Month: July 2008
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Beat ISP tracking
Given that New Wave Communications is now looking to track it’s customers. I’m going to show you how to limit the usefulness of the information they can collect. The specific system used by New Wave relies on browser cookies to identify customers. Since cookies are very necessary for a lot of functionality on the web…
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New Wave is tracking the Interwebs
For several months I’ve been noticing splash advertising when a page I try to load is redirected elsewhere. The advertising itself was bad enough but now New Wave Communications has announced they will be allowing people to opt-in to be tracked. In exchange, customers will recieve more “customized” advertising and maybe some service discounts provided…
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spring cleaning
Today was reserved for spring cleaning. My laptop was far more disgusting than I want to admit. Lots of hair and food particulate was living under the keys becoming it’s own self-sustaining ecosystem. So today I made the time to disassemble the keyboard and thoroughly work all of the crud out. I am quite pleased…