Does ATS use web bugs/clear tracking pixels?, page 1

I ask this because sometimes, near the top left of the ad at top of the page there is white pixel. Just wondering.

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No.

ATS Privacy Policy

You could always view the html source of ATS pages and check out each and every object for yourself...?

Edit to add: If you suspect one of the ad providers of using "underhanded" methods of gather information, please notify us using the Complaints feature and give as much information about it as you can provide.

Originally posted by Gemwolf
No.

ATS Privacy Policy

You could always view the html source of ATS pages and check out each and every object for yourself...?

brillient idea for a browser add on
a browser that looks for you lol



xploder

If you're using Firefox, you can install an add-on called Ghostery, which shows what tracking a website or it's advertisers are using. ATS has Google+1, Google Analytics, Gorilla Nation, Quantcast, and Scorecard research Beacon all tracking, among other things, your browsing habits (eg. exit URL, time/date), your IP, and your "demographics" (e.g operating system, browser software, etc). This information is collected by Internet advertising companies for means of measuring advertising effectiveness and appropriateness to the audience, graphing visitor behaviour, billing, etc, and it is shared with third parties. Pretty much every website on the Internets has this stuff.

There is also a type of cookie called a Flash Cookie - a "Super Cookie", so called because they aren't stored or deleted with your normal cookies, and are difficult to find and remove. Better Privacy add-on for Firefox can remove these. I'm not sure if ATS has any of these.

If you don't want to be tracked, don't use the Internet...(or use Tor).

reply to post by XL5

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It depends how you define "grab info". That cookie might simply count visitors, i am too lazy now to lookup what the quantcast cookie does but i think i have that on some of my own sites too.

Then there are other kinds of "tracking" cookies, for example when you visit shopping sites amazon.com....where they really CAN track all the sites you are visiting for the purpose of creating a profile to be able to display ads according to your interests etc.

As for "hiding" the pixel..it's just how it is implemented technically..it's not done purposefully to "hide" something..but a common way to set a remote Cookie on a user's PC. (Because for the cookie to be set on the user's PC, there needs to be a connection made to the server, eg. quantcast or wherever the cookie comes from. (Because you are not connected to them, you are instead on ATS)

And one way to open up a connection in your browser to a remote site (from *another* site) is by having an image open from the other site, but the image ITSELF is not important, it's only a tiny 1 pixel image which is invisible...and it only serves the purpose so the cookie can be set on your computer). (Because the cookie doesn't come from ATS but from another site).

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Note: All modern browsers should have a "private browsing feature" which would enable private browsing, means all cookies get cleared after you exit your sessions. (I am not sure now whether the cookies are actually getting blocked also when you activate private browsing).

But you can ALSO in your internet options set privacy/security options that way that ALL cookies are blocked if you are really concerned about cookies.

Private Browsing in Firefox:

support.mozilla.org...

Blocking all Cookies:

www.howtogeek.com...