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Millions of people are fooled, because currently, only certain websites like Reddit, Pinterest, and Medium respect “Do Not Track” settings, and Yahoo and Twitter backed off initial claims of respecting “Do Not Track” results. Google don’t honor requests set up by these tools.
Unlike with the national Do Not Call Registry for telephones, there is no penalty if a website ignores a “Do Not Track” claim.
The Do Not Call Registry accomplishes nothing these days, they respect nothing. They "spoof" numbers meaning they disguise their number by using your area code and some random number. I still don't answer.
Have you gotten any robocalls lately?
I know I have and there's not much I can do about it except block and block and block.
Hopefully, some kind of law will be passed to stop this. It's gotten completely out of hand.
As for the tracking on websites, you could turn cookies completely off, get a VPN etc. There is an add-on for browsers that will tell you who's tracking you, it's called Ghostery. How well it works is not clear.
The Do Not Call Registry accomplishes nothing these days,
I actually have to wonder if that list is used to place calls...
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Hopefully, some kind of law will be passed to stop this. It's gotten completely out of hand.
My state of PA implemented this law in the 90's long before it was federal alw. It may have been the first one. One of the things they did was provide poart of the fine to the victim thus there was an incentive to report the perpetrator. Fines were also doubled if it was senior citizen.
What should be required is country of origin identifier and another identifier for the phone company providing the service. Simply allow US consumers to drop all call originating outside the US, the phone company identifier would make them legally responsible to identify the caller or be subject to the penalty themselves.
I actually have to wonder if that list is used to place calls...
It used to be. The bad guys have better tools today.
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What should be required is country of origin identifier and another identifier for the phone company providing the service. Simply allow US consumers to drop all call originating outside the US, the phone company identifier would make them legally responsible to identify the caller or be subject to the penalty themselves.
That is one of several ways the problem could be solved.
I can outline a tech solution that would work without changing any laws, but it would need someone to write the code, and maybe make an interface box. (I am good at algorithms and protocols, but haven't done any coding or fabrication for more than a dozen years.)
But it would only work if a lot of people adopted it. (Creates a little extra work for legitimate callers, and massive amounts of time consuming work for the bad guys.)
From the department of irony, Google’s Chrome browser offers users the ability to turn off tracking, but Google itself doesn’t honor the request -- a fact Google added to its support page {only within}...the last year.
The older I get the less I care.
First of all, I always knew not everyone had to abide by this.
Second.... I;ll be dead someday. I don't care if City DTA KNOWS i AM GOING TO aMAZON FROM HERE.
(ACCI-caps)
The older I get the less I care.
First of all, I always knew not everyone had to abide by this.
Second.... I;ll be dead someday. I don't care if City DTA KNOWS i AM GOING TO aMAZON FROM HERE.
(ACCI-caps)
No, it is your grandson, who happens to be
your namesake, that doesn't need to know
what your wife wears on "your special date nights."
Violations of privacy can lead to some
unintended, and unseemly, consequences.
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