Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean that everyone isn't out to get you

Shout out to Seth Godin for posting about "How to opt out of cookie sniffing and trading." From his post:

As discussed before, there are networks of companies planting cookies on your machine and tracking behavior across websites. That means you'll see an ad on one site based on what you did on another.

You can opt out for free. Here's the not very well promoted link.

I was surprised to discover that over 2 dozen companies had behaviour tracking cookies on my system.