https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0 How do companies or other track us, and why? en-us 2019-01-13 14:36:03 UTC 2024-11-06 13:44:46 UTC hello@padlet.com adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320050138 The three kinds of entities who work together to track users and composites profiles are the Advertisers, Publisheers and Aggregators. ]]> 2019-01-13 14:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320050138 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320051149 The Advertisers are companies than have products or services to sell and to market them. 
The Publisher are companies that publish advertisement online, with web, page content, games.
The Aggregators are companies that collect information such as the business name, address, phone number, website, description and hours of operation. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320051149 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320051670 These companies can also understand our location. When we browse a website the site places tracking cookie in your web browser. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320051670 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320052110 The website don’t really have and information about who you are on your profile since you did not authenticate to any of these websites, but they can stilo guess your age, sex and other details from your reading and browsing habits. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320052110 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320052480 Data Aggregators compiles information from databases or partner websites on individuals and sell that to advertisers to target ads to know more about data Aggregators. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320052480 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320053995 A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser with the user is browsing. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320053995 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320054552 Cookies were designer to be a reliable mechanism for  websites to remember stateful information or to record the user’s browsing activity, they can also ne used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user’s previously entered info form fields such as names, addresses, passwords and credit card numbers. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320054552 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320054837 Perhaps most importantly, authentication cookies are the most common method used by web servers to know whether the user is logged in with. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320054837 adela_vuthaj https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320055111 Without such a mechanism the site would not know whether to send a page containing sensitive information or require the user to authenticate themselves by logging in. ]]> 2019-01-13 15:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/adela_vuthaj/p54ybf727al0/wish/320055111