Behavioural advertising and Wiggle

I heard about that recently, but forgot the URL (was told verbally). I'll try it out.

FWIW, I have no problem with using Google for search.

Me neither.

But I prefer services that log only that which is required to provide the service (i.e. very little to nothing), and that provide a secure interface to do so (I love https as it prevents any middle-man inserting adverts into my web pages). That this info is now disconnected from my Google profile is a boon to me. Google is becoming the core of my online identity with Gmail and Calendar, but the more I invest in using those, the more I more peripheral things away from Google... I don't like all my eggs in that one basket, especially when it's all monitored. I'll concede a certain amount of tin foil wearing.

My wife received one of those emails from amazon suggesting books she might be interested in yesterday. The weird thing is, they are books Ive been looking at on amazon, and shes never looked at, on a different computer.
We email each other a lot, but from different email providers, 1 mac.com and a googlemail. Feels like we've been spied on!

nearl ever one of my unis computers now have targeted adds of some variety purelydown to my daily time waisting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12668552

From 25 May, European laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies".

Seems to be targetted at advertising and "tracking" rather than session management..

Specifically excluded by the directive are cookies that log what people have put in online shopping baskets.

Throw an empty "shopping basket" into the server-side session - problem solved?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cca74d5c-4907-11e0-af8c-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=crm/email/201138/nbe/FinancialServices/product#axzz1Fu0MUVCH

Interesting view from the other side of the fence here