Don't Bubble Us
I must say, I'm really creeped out by all these results in my hometown when I don't voluntarily disclose where I'm from. And those location widgets I see on people's blogs. I guess they use the computer's IP address.
On a related note, one time I was looking for shoes at Zappos and suddenly everywhere I went those exact same shoes from Zappos, that I never even bought, were showing up on all these other sites, like a weather page! What if it was a gift? I mean, I can't delete my cookies after every site I land on.
Here's their search engine:
2 comments:
Yes. I dislike how much we're tracked. Not much can be helped. I think I posted something on G+ about privacy/cookies/websites. You'll have to read it if you haven't yet.
I'm not sure there's a way around it.
According to Google, you can disable customization or personalization of searches:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=54048
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