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UPDATE 3-Brokerage LPL sets dividends, share sale
* Shareholders Hellman & Friedman, TPG Capital to sell 14.5
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How to Disconnect from Web Tracking
Tools by Disconnect literally "disconnect" you from Facebook, Google and Twitter so that these major sites don't keep track of your browsing. A new tool called Collusion for Chrome shows users all the websites that secretly track you as you browse the Web. How do these tools work, and what are the advantages to using them? There is a hope that one day, our Web life will be private again.
"If consumers express increased concern about this kind of tracking," says ESET security evangelist Stephen Cobb, "then we might see the people who do it moderate that behavior. One view of this is that the market will determine whether people keep getting tracked."
Something like this has probably happened to you: You read about back surgery on some website, and then every page you go to has an ad for a back surgery clinic in Florida. This is an example of cross-site tracking technology.
It is exactly this type of behavior that Disconnect's tools try to combat, or at least slow down by inspecting the outgoing requests from the browser. These behave differently from Firefox's Do Not Track and Google's Incognito browsing.
"Even if something like Do-Not-Track gets wide industry adoption, there's a small chance that those 7,000 third parties that we discussed in our presentation at DeathCon will actually respect the Do-Not-Track header," says Brian Kennish, founder of Disconnect.
Google Incognito browsing is not as hidden as it seems. While it's a useful way to clear out cookies every session, what it really does is wipe out all cookies from a specific browsing session after you shut it down. It is best for browsing on a public machine.
How Disconnect Works
"The extensions inspect the outgoing requests from the browser, and they all have at least a blacklist, and they generally have a whitelist as well," says Disconnect Founder Brian Kennish. "For any given request, they'll check the request against their blacklist and see if it's going to that domain, and if so it will stop the requests."
Some extensions operate only on cookies, which means they will prevent cookies from people who are on the blacklist. That is not how Disconnect tools operate.
"Our extensions operate at the request level, because cookies are only one way in which ads, analytics and ad companies can do the tracking," Kennish says. "Cookies are only one way users can be uniquely identified. There are other ways, like IP address, LSOs (flash cookies) and browser fingerprinting, to name a few."
Disconnect offers tools that stop Facebook, Google and Twitter from tracking your browsing activities.
"Organizations that are getting a significant chunk of users' browsing history, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter, can get upwards of 5% of a users' browsing history, which becomes a significant number. If you open up history in your browser and select 30% of sites and email them to Google, that's what it's like," Kennish says.
Yet block out too many sites, and you walk a fine line between protection and convenience - blocking too much just makes the browsing experience feel completely inconvenient.
Collusion for Google Chrome Shows How Websites Track You
Six weeks ago, Mozilla launched a Collusion extension that tracks which websites are tracking you. Disconnect just did the same thing for Chrome, making it possible to see how widely sites you visit are disseminating your data. It gives you a peek into the secret world of invisible tracking on the Web.
"We're just scratching the surface of what can be done visualization-wise," Kennish says. "Our two priorities are to educate and help users understand what is happening with their data, and to empower users to understand how their data is used or not."
The second step is the main focus of Collusion, which scans sites that set cookies and additional signals.
"What consumers have not fully realized yet is that much of their activity is in a database, somewhere," Cobb says. "And the extent to which companies are trying to connect those databases so they have a broader look at your behavior."
Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.
UPDATE 1-U.S. homeownership rate drops to 15-year low in Q1
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The share of privately
owned U.S. homes fell to a 15-year low in the first quarter,
government data showed on Mo nday, suggesting that falling house
prices are... 
owned U.S. homes fell to a 15-year low in the first quarter,
government data showed on Mo nday, suggesting that falling house
prices are...
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2012 Jerez MotoGP Saturday Round Up: Of Fresh Excitement and Fallen Heroes
Writing about MotoGP is hard at the moment. There are so many great stories to tell - the astonishing rise of Romano Fenati out of nowhere in Moto3, the legion of Kalexes taking on Marc Marquez in Moto2, the frenetic pace of development among the CRT machines, the ascendancy of Dani Pedrosa as a challenger for Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner, the rebirth of Cal Crutchlow as a serious force to be reckoned with, the HRC design gaffe that left the RC213V seriously afflicted by chatter, just to name a few - but it is hard to get around to telling them. Because the vast majority of fans only want to read about one single subject: the enigma of Valentino Rossi's continuing battle with the Ducati Desmosedici, and his fall from championship contender to mid-pack straggler.
Each race adds another chapter to the epic saga that Rossi's problems have become, and the weekend of the Spanish Grand Prix is no exception. It is a tale that needs to be told, however tiresome it may have become to some, and I shall return to later on. But first, we have three fascinating sessions of qualifying which need attention.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Sports Arena
Increasingly, the gospel roots of this soul man have made themselves manifest. It seems like this Catholic son has been spending time in black churches.
Increasingly, the gospel roots of this soul man have made themselves manifest. It seems like this Catholic son has been spending time in black churches.
Increasingly, the gospel roots of this soul man have made themselves manifest. It seems like this Catholic son has been spending time in black churches.
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Lawyer in Afghan murder case hopes to put the war on trial
John Henry Browne is defending Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, charged with murdering 17 civilians. The lawyer, whose clients have included Ted Bundy, says he is driven to get the system to work for Bales.
SEATTLE — John Henry Browne's first brush with the U.S. military was during the Vietnam War. The lanky attorney, then a student who drove a purple hippie van, was rejected for the draft because he was too tall.
SEATTLE — John Henry Browne's first brush with the U.S. military was during the Vietnam War. The lanky attorney, then a student who drove a purple hippie van, was rejected for the draft because he was too tall.
Gamelatron Robotic Orchestra
The Gamelatron is a robotic instrument that simulates an orchestra. TechShop Artist in Resident Taylor Kuffner has recreated it in San Francisco.
K-pop enters American pop consciousness
Girls' Generation, 2NE1, GD&TOP, JYJ, Wonder Girls and others from South Korea are expanding audiences in U.S. beyond Korean Americans.
The nine young women of Girls' Generation sauntered onto the performance stage of "Late Show With David Letterman." Flanked by a DJ and live drummer, the South Korean pop group wore lacy black mini-dresses and thigh-high leather boots, as if they were hosting a goth cocktail party. It was a rare American network television performance from a South Korean music group.
The nine young women of Girls' Generation sauntered onto the performance stage of "Late Show With David Letterman." Flanked by a DJ and live drummer, the South Korean pop group wore lacy black mini-dresses and thigh-high leather boots, as if they were hosting a goth cocktail party. It was a rare American network television performance from a South Korean music group.
The latest trend among chefs: Food tattoos
Michael Voltaggio, Carolynn Spence and seemingly everyone in the kitchen is linked by ink.
Michael Voltaggio has no idea how many tattoos he has. The question makes him laugh. The wise-cracking 33-year-old chef is pretty well covered. The name of his restaurant, after all, is Ink. Before dinner service on a recent Friday, Voltaggio plays around with an insulated bucket of liquid nitrogen, dipping his hand in it and tossing the residue on the floor where it morphs, CGI-like, into little rolling marbles of chemistry before dissolving into wisps of smoke. He laughs like the 15-year-old kid he was when he got his first covert tattoo, a crude three-leaf clover on his ankle.
Michael Voltaggio has no idea how many tattoos he has. The question makes him laugh. The wise-cracking 33-year-old chef is pretty well covered. The name of his restaurant, after all, is Ink. Before dinner service on a recent Friday, Voltaggio plays around with an insulated bucket of liquid nitrogen, dipping his hand in it and tossing the residue on the floor where it morphs, CGI-like, into little rolling marbles of chemistry before dissolving into wisps of smoke. He laughs like the 15-year-old kid he was when he got his first covert tattoo, a crude three-leaf clover on his ankle.
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