HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!!!!

And by personal information, we mean your user ID. Doesn't get much more personal than "Honest Bender." I mean, if people knew I was Honest Bender...

from TFA
"Just by clicking on a Home Depot ad, 13 different sites received user first name and email address."


who clicks on ads?

my username dont care if leaked email never cheked just created with fake name and radom adress password long forgoten

you get nothing from me in the end.

If you are not paying to use it YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

(yes, that includes Fark)

Bukharin: from TFA
"Just by clicking on a Home Depot ad, 13 different sites received user first name and email address."


who clicks on ads?

What ads?

Chevello: Bukharin: from TFA
"Just by clicking on a Home Depot ad, 13 different sites received user first name and email address."


who clicks on ads?

What ads?

What are these things you refer to as ads? Don't believe I am familiar with those....

apeiron242: If you are not paying to use it YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

(yes, that includes Fark)

Even if you pay for Fark, aren't there still ads? So...you're paying to be the product?

apeiron242: If you are not paying to use it YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

(yes, that includes Fark)

People are starting to say that louder and louder...

Sometimes YOU aren't the product. In some cases, your ATTENTION is the product. In others, your feedback is the product. In worst cases, your private information is the product. Often it's a combination, but for most of the free things I use, my attention is the valuable thing I provide for the service.

As far as most websites know, I'm 85 years old, born in Nairobi, work at Ringling Brothers, and am named Goethe Helen Waite. As an early adopter, I opened a lot of free email accounts before the sites were asking for your phone number and shoe size.

If you put your real information in a website, you're asking for it.

Ghostery
Cookie Monster
ShareMeNot
NoScripts
Prism
TOR


Use them in good health

/you are welcome

And you're surprised by this???

ha

Betcha that 61% doesn't include sites that don't keep customer information secure from their own employees or ones that don't use SSL for everything personal.