One Button Internet Advertising Opt Out

Quickly and easily opt-out of the new behavioral profiling by internet advertisers.

Privacychoice.net gathers multiple individual opt-out buttons from dozens of networks, including Google AdSense, DoubleClick, Yahoo! and AOL, and opts you out of their advertising.
The great part is that this doesn't require cookies to be turned off completely or setting your privacy preferences at each site. I like keeping some cookies so I don't have to log in every time to sites that I visit often.

It can take a little time (around 45 second for me) for privacychoice to make connections to all the agencies that you are opting out of.
The opt out function uses a cookie in your browser, so if your browser cookies get cleared, you'll need to opt out at the privacychoice site again.

privacychoice.net

Firefox users have the advantage of an extension that sets permanent cookies. Its called TACO (Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out).
Here's the description: 'This tool sets permanent, generic, non personally identifiable opt-out cookies in the user's browser, which will prevent 90 different online advertising networks (including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo) from displaying highly targeted advertisements using the detailed information on users' web surfing habits which they collect.
Unlike other earlier opt-out solutions, this tool will make the cookies completely persistent. That is, clearing the browser's cookies will delete all other installed cookies, except these."

Signing off,
Rhiannon

Click here for more items like this. Better still, get Rhiannon's latest tasty tech treats delivered daily via your RSS feeder or alternatively, have the RSS feed sent as email direct to your in-box.