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Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Mike — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:19:13 -0000

Well to be honest, I dont like it when people try to track your every move.
Mike - warm winter coats consultant.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

nancy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:20:44 -0000

wow that sucks that I've been tracked all this time on youtube! thanks for the list at least now I can decide whether I want to avoid some of them. Good to know little sites like my free-credit-reports-annual.com won't compromise users' identity with strangers! =)

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Nerdoholic — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:03:50 -0000

There's also another one called FoxiFly which I came across on Killer Startups. It seems to do most of the things above, including the stalking aspect! lol I used it briefly and it did seem pretty fun with some useful tools too. Not many people on it at the moment though, looks like its just launched. http://www.foxifly.com if you dont mind being stalked. I still cant understand why so many people seem into these types of sites though, not really my cup of tea, but hey, whatever floats your boat I guess.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

vaspers the grate — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:39:35 -0000

Plazes and other location-based status updates seems like a parent's worst nightmare, a predator's dream come true.

Lemmings lining up for surveillance. Identity thieves lurking in the wings.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Jeffro2pt0 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:46:01 -0000

Hello James. After reading Nick's article on Valleywag and then re-reading your article, I had to post my thoughts about this situation which I have published to my own site.

I don't understand why so many users have switched from wanting to remain anonymous to broadcasting their entire computing life to the web. I realize this is voluntary, but I feel that at some point in time, all of this broadcasting is going to bite people in the rear due to identity theft. The more information that a thieve can gain against a particular individual the better, at least in their eyes.

I just don't seem to understand the logic of broadcasting all of this information to the web.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

hasl von — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:40:59 -0000

What about DIGG? Digg.com is a social news website(through which many people found this article) that bases much of it's development on voyeristic and anti-privacy features, linking all comments made and stories dug by an individually registered user to their user-name, which is in turn linked to that users personal information, real-name, e-mail, and the ip address of the computer they are using. In addition to promoting the ease and variety of ways that this information can be accessed(including in real-time). If any authoritarian institution were looking for an easy way to obtain personal and psychological profiles for a large number of people Digg is the place to go.

Google history is listed in the above article, but i think another of their features that deserves special mention for anti-privacy concerns would be "google street view".

It's suprising that so very few are concerned with loss of privacy

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

heiko hebig — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:25:14 -0000

With iLike [ilike.com] you can share your iTunes library info and find users that have a similar taste in music: "Share music libraries with your friends, browse and sample their most played songs, and compare your compatibility scores."

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Dell — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:24:38 -0000

Never knew all of these services actually existed and most of them turn out to be pretty useful. Thanks much for this list

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Andy — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:35:27 -0000

One thing about last.fm that wasn't mentioned, was that after you've subscribed to them, you have the ability to see which of your friends have been spying on your page, something that no other 'stalker' website I use seems to incorporate.

Interesting topic though, a good read James :)

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Matt — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:41:54 -0000

Only dangerous if you are doing stuff at work that you're not supposed to be... Now, who would do such a thing? ;)

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Steve Falcon — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:20:14 -0000

Here's the correct link for this very page mobbed with YouMob.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Steve Falcon — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:13:21 -0000

YouMob is a cool one and not just a universal tracker. With YouMob you don't need a download. When you go to the YouMob site, you can "mob" any page. Anyone joining the mob can comment live with others there, show how they feel, and invite others.

Mobs are listed in order of most "mobbers", so you can find where the action is. The system can handle tons of people in a mob so you can have big rallies or protests with it. But you can also just hang out and chat with friends or strangers on any site.

You can click on a member in YouMob and follow them to wherever they're "mobbing". But someone can also put follow-me beacons anywhere on the web. The beacons blink when their owners are in a mob. Clicking one takes you right to them. No script, no flash. Neat.

You can also get automatic email when a friend starts a new mob, so you can jump in if it seems interesting. Or maybe you make it interesting.

If you're a blogger or website you get free banner advertising by putting partner beacons on your site. The beacons can point to any mob, whether yours or some cause you support. Every time someone clicks through, your ad gets a bigger slice of the airtime on YouMob.com. And the banner location is prime.

Most people don't want to be tracked wherever they go. With YouMob, sharing your location is under your control. You can promote places on the web, chat and make friends, and share where you are with fans and strangers alike.

To demonstrate, this page is mobbed.

Pretty cool, and I'm fairly partial.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Bob — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:48:24 -0000

www.hitwise.com is the biggest one on the planet. uses squid logs to track everyones web surfing. Not much anyone can do about it.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

James Mowery — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:57:42 -0000

Very true.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:00:59 -0000

Don't forget MyBlogLog (http://mybloglog.com)!

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

James Mowery — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:42:41 -0000

Now why would you be using illegal software? ;)

Regardless, yes, it can be very dangerous to use these applications on a work computer and I'd never recommend it.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

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Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Lia — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:59:19 -0000

With all these things I wonder what effects they can have. E.g., if you use wakoopa.com, i can imagine that you could get in big big trouble if you use illegal software. And: everyone - including your employer - can see what you are doing during the day. Fairly dangerous if you ask me.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Bastian — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:30:21 -0000

Hi,

i think Weblin (www.weblin.com) should be mentioned here as well. Innovative German startup. I very much like it.

regards,

Bastian

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

Ivan — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:08:53 -0000

Or you could become a Social Hermit. "Apart we are together". But I can't ask you to join. I'll be in my cave theorising Social Hermitage.

Re: Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

SEARCH ENGINES WEB * — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:34:26 -0000

Yahoo and MSN probably track about as much as Google does, so they should also be included.

Especially, since they aloffer many free Web services that require sign-ins.

Additionally, their Search Engines uses Click tracking to evaluate which search results are clicked on for queries - and the server logs are kept for months