Lynne A Becker Clearing the Facebook history or switching off it's recording of Future history will have little effect on what adds you get when you go to Facebook or other pages. whenever you use the internet all the places you'll go to, can be recorded by the places you visit, completely independent of any app you may be using. changing the setting on one app will have next to no effect on the overall history recording process. the thing that most people use to access the internet, their browser and email are able to provide history information, to those that want to know about it, for the purpose of directive advertising. even clearing your web browser history or deleting all your emails will have next to no effect of the type of advertising thats gets directed to you. again this is because you havealready been to websites. doing so provides a lot of information tothose websites, completely independent of what's going on, on your device that you're looking at it which technically is called server-side processing

browsing history information is for your benefit. so you can go back and look at the places you've been to. the people you've been to already know you've been there. it's like driving to a friend's place to visit them. you could erase the record that you drove there, but if you've met your friend they know you've been there.

I run my own web server and have a log of every single access to every single one of the thousands of pages I have. not only do I know the IP address they connected with, but also the type of browser they used, what type of device they used, and what web site they came from toget to my pages.

the bottom line here is that browsing the internet is not completely private. using the Internet you give away certain information about yourself for the privileges of getting to use a lot of functions of it, without costs.

that is what should be given to people about using the Internet. then they can make their own decisions. I agree with Jim Chi. thatvideo just scares people off, from using the Internet, unnecessarily.

Jim Chi DuckDuckGo does appear to do what it said on its web site. however it is a for profit organisation that has revenue. it gets it's revenue from advertising and affiliate marketing. see: https://help.duckduckgo.com/ duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ advertising-and-affiliates/ so don't assume that you will get less advertising by using DuckDuckGo. it is just that you will get blanket advertising rather than directed. personally I would prefer directed advertising. this issue was more about privacy than security. there is privacy laws and then privacy. the former does not necessarily reflect what a lot of people think the latter is. if you want privacy don't use the internet.