July 12, 2011

Cookies: The silent snoop on your PC

This is two paragraphs of a long article. He mentions flash cookies which you can get rid of. Last month, the British advertising giant WPP boasted that it had just created the world’s largest database of individuals’ online behaviour: profiles of 500 million people, covering, it says, almost 100 per cent of the people online in the countries in which it operates, including the UK, the US, Australia and eight others. The firm said it was pooling data from many of the world’s major websites and networks of online advertisers and adding it to information purchased from traditional market-research firms…

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BootMed

I’m downloading this later. Certainly looks like a useful tool.I retrieved some files from a partition I messed up recently using BrowserLinux and that was as simple as moving them from one folder to another but this is much more.I have some family and friends who do not seem to understand the importance of regular maintenance on Windows and I think this will make the job simpler when I get the call.From a review: the idea of using Linux to help teach Windows users how to recover their files has invoked a few chuckles amongst the Linux community as well…

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