I have written before about Verizon (and AT&T) supercookies (see here and here, among others). Briefly, supercookies are tracking devices that Verizon adds to your web traffic from your phone after the traffic leaves your phone but before it reaches the intended web site. Verizon uses this traffic to figure out what sites you visit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, maybe not a friend that you want to have, but they will likely get to visit the nation’s Capitol. Verizon has gotten way more press than it would like by inserting super-cookies into it’s customers web traffic to allow folks like the marketing giant Turn to build dossiers on Verizon customers and then sell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to USA Today and the NY Times, Verizon has announced that it will allow users to opt out of their super-cookie program “soon”. You may remember that both Verizon and AT&T were caught adding a unique tracking identifier into all web page requests last year as customers were using programs such as ad blocker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]PC World and others are reporting that Turn, the advertising group that I wrote about a few days ago, will stop using Verizon’s unique identifier to target advertising to Verizon customers in early February. The practice, which is completely legal, lets Turn track every web page a Verizon customer visits, even if they delete their […]
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