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Friday, March 18, 2016

McAfee is using web bugs...





"Remember, it used to be that if you weren't paying for a product, you were the product; but today, even if you pay for the product, you're _still_ the product.
https://boingboing.net/2016/03/17/mcafee-shovelware-emits-tracki.html
"One particular finding: McAfee is using web bugs that can be used to track and serve advertising to users. In our opinion, this is the only purpose these web bugs serve. In addition, it is against security best practices to trust third party sites and allow them to load content. It puts users at risk and benefits only the vendor and advertisers."

via:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/03/17/1336209/mcafee-uses-web-beacons-that-can-be-used-to-track-users-serve-advertising




sent in by Mr Natural

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