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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How to Find Out Who's Watching Your Online Activity]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</guid><description><![CDATA[Any good anti-malware program should be able to block web bugs.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Psycros]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 2nd 2009 11:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How to Find Out Who's Watching Your Online Activity]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</guid><description><![CDATA["Web bugs" make them sound malicious. Developers/Marketers call them tracking pixels and are used for analytics of users that don't use JavaScript. It is not as though their purpose is to install software, etc. It is often used for traffic metrics to provide a better user experience.<br><br>Tracking pixels have been around for years now, and as more users update their browsers, most of the work will be done by ajax requests.<br><br>I think a better move to protect privacy is to block all tracking pixels, etc from other domains, forcing companies (especially retailers with affiliate programs) to set up subdomains to point to the companies that are doing the tracking.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter J. Hart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 2nd 2009 7:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How to Find Out Who's Watching Your Online Activity]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</guid><description><![CDATA[Psh. I got 5 "web bugs" on this page alone. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 2nd 2009 10:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How to Find Out Who's Watching Your Online Activity]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</guid><description><![CDATA[I added Ghostery and found 2 web bugs on the AOL home page and 5 bugs on the Switched home page.  I use Firefox and download Ghostery from their collection of extensions and addons.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Smith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 3rd 2009 8:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How to Find Out Who's Watching Your Online Activity]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</guid><description><![CDATA[I would to join but I don't know what my URL address is-can you tell me how to figure that out?  thank you, brenda]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[brenda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 5th 2009 3:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How to Find Out Who's Watching Your Online Activity]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/02/02/how-to-find-out-whos-watching-your-online-activity/</guid><description><![CDATA[www.whatsmyip.com<br>this will giveyou  your IP address]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juli]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 7th 2009 7:31AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
