Uh oh.
According to VICE’s Motherboard, there are 30 million people who watch online porn on a regular basis, and they are probably being tracked. So much so, that it would probably be pretty easy to compile a list of every smut clip a person has ever watched, even if he or she is browsing in private mode.
Software engineer Brett Thomas said that even if you are watching porn in incognito mode in 2015, you “should expect that at some point your porn viewing history will be publicly released and attached to your name.”
Thomas said many porn sites are just like mainstream sites like Facebook in that they collect “footprints” left by visitors, and all it takes is for somebody to connect those footprints and show that somebody just left their Facebook page to surf through some smut on PornHub or XNXX.
“So, for example, when you click on Leather Fetish #3 on XNXX, you’re not just sending a request to the porn site–a so-called first party request. You’re sending third-party requests to Google, to the web-tracking company AddThis, and to a company called Pornvertising, too, even if you’re browsing in private mode. You’re also sending other data that can be used to identify your computer, like your IP address.”
Our advice? You guessed it: Use somebody else’s computer when you’re punching your clown.
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