Does your business use Google Analytics on its website?
Then Google will use the information that it so generously generates and analyzes for you to show ads for competing businesses to your customers. While you are analyzing the information to see how you can improve your business, they are analyzing the information to see how they can destroy your business.
And a general reminder to everyone: Add the following to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 tpc.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 www.onclickmax.com
This will cause a whole lot of ads, and a whole lot of ad targeting, to disappear.
Turn off Thunderbird and Firefox’s routine tattling.
- Mozilla Firefox
- Type ‘about:config’ in the address bar
- Click through the warning
- Type ‘geo.’ in the search box. A list of items appears
- Doubleclick on the geo.enabled item till it reads ‘False’
- Change the two strings to ‘http://localhost’
- Change the timeout to 1
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Select Tools/Options/Avanced/General/Config Editor
- click through the warning
- type ‘geo.’ in the search box. A list of items appears
- set the timeout to one, and the url to ‘http://localhost’
Don’t use Google accounts. Remember that you can create a new google account without giving them any ID information on a fresh android phone which is connected to the internet by the mall wifi, but does not have a sim card in it.
Don’t use Google search for anything related to politics or money, since this is sending your searches character by character to Google. Definitely don’t use Google search while logged in to your Google account. Use DuckDuckGo. I have never received a targeted ad from DuckDuckGo except in reply to my search.
Don’t use Chrome, because this reports all browser activity to Google.
Disable all durable cookies for Google Servers.