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TwilightZone

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4. That doesn't mean that the ads have access to your data.

Reply to Odoreida (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 12:09 PM

Mar 2020

It just means that the page has links to the ads.

Financial institutions, for example, nearly all have ads on their websites. That doesn't mean that the ads have access to your bank data, even if the ads are on the pages for online banking.

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Seems like a lot of scripts not related to gathering census data. [View all] Odoreida Mar 2020 OP

They're ads. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #1

So much for census data being private. n/t Odoreida Mar 2020 #2

+1 2naSalit Mar 2020 #3

No. Look at the screenshot in the OP jberryhill Mar 2020 #7

Good point customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #10

That doesn't mean that the ads have access to your data. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #4

It doesn't even mean that jberryhill Mar 2020 #6

You are not paranoid enough jberryhill Mar 2020 #5

Here. Click on this and learn what you did to yourself... jberryhill Mar 2020 #8

Post removed Post removed Mar 2020 #9

Did you mean to reply to yourself? MineralMan Mar 2020 #11