Hey kids, this is just a heads up that I'll be removing the social media icons from my website.
While this blog is hosted by Blogger for now (i.e. Google) and there's not much I can do about their tracking, I've grown tired of the incessant tracking and data collection done by organizations & social media, in particular, Facebook.
Even more particularly, a Belgian privacy group had found the Facebook is placing trackers & long-term (i.e. 2 years!) cookies on every user whenever they visit a site that has a FB 'like' button on it. Even if they're not logged in, even if they're not Facebook users.
Eep. That's just not acceptable to me, that by visiting my site, I'm basically consigning readers to be tracked by Facebook.
So I'll be taking their 'like/follow' buttons off the website. You can still find me there, and here's how!
While this blog is hosted by Blogger for now (i.e. Google) and there's not much I can do about their tracking, I've grown tired of the incessant tracking and data collection done by organizations & social media, in particular, Facebook.
Even more particularly, a Belgian privacy group had found the Facebook is placing trackers & long-term (i.e. 2 years!) cookies on every user whenever they visit a site that has a FB 'like' button on it. Even if they're not logged in, even if they're not Facebook users.
Eep. That's just not acceptable to me, that by visiting my site, I'm basically consigning readers to be tracked by Facebook.
So I'll be taking their 'like/follow' buttons off the website. You can still find me there, and here's how!
"Like' page: https://www.facebook.com/KrisKennedyBooks
"Friend' page: https://www.facebook.com/kris.author
https://twitter.com/KrisKennedy
And while I'm at it, I'll remind you to be sure to sign up for the newsletter!
http://eepurl.com/krTUb
(If you're interested in privacy, there are loads of apps/addons/extentions for every browser that will let you block &/or stop scripts and cookies on websites. Just search your browser's extensions for 'privacy.' Some examples: BetterPrivacy, NoScript (pretty vigorous, so it may take a little time to learn what you want to allow/keep blocking, but it's highly effective), Ghostery, Blur, DisableWebRTC)
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