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Website privacy options aren't much of a choice since they're hard to find and use

  • Written by Hana Habib, Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
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You’ve probably encountered a pair of shoes that won’t stop following you around the internet, appearing in advertisements on different sites for weeks.

Today, the vast majority of advertising is targeted – that is, you see an ad because an advertiser thinks...

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