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  • Essay / Negative Effects of Digital Privacy - 1089

    “For DNT to work, sites visited must agree to maintain the preference not to be tracked. Although some large businesses and corporations have agreed to honor DNT, many have refused to do so because it threatens advertising revenues” (Factsheet 18). What’s even more interesting are the “cookies”. This is when the internet/computer remembers an individual's purchases, preferences, and/or personal sections such as your address and has an autofill button that saves to your hardware drive. There are a wide variety of cookies, such as first-party cookies and third-party cookies. With first-party cookies, they use this information to provide offers to regular online users. Third-party cookies may share your information with clearinghouses and in the hope of displaying tips to users in the hope that they will use them according to their preferences. When you block third-party cookies, you can become more aware of your online privacy and security. This helps block consumer pop-ups and advertisements across the web. Sometimes you can even have poor internet privacy related to cookies that the user is unaware of. There are websites on the World Wide Web that offer the worst privacy on the Internet, such as Facebook apps. A pure example is back in 2010,