From ‘Which’ mag, a while ago. This website lets you opt out of ‘online behavioural ads’, the ones that follow you around…

youronlinechoices.com/uk

…click ‘your ad choices’. I was surprised at how many companies are involved.

This doesn’t reduce the number of ads and if I’m going to have some I’d rather they were relevant.

I guess it’s good for the paranoid, though why they’d choose to use the Internet at all, I just don’t know.

why they’d choose to use the Internet at all, I just don’t know

How else can I keep up with what I need to be paranoid about?

This doesn’t reduce the number of ads and if I’m going to have some I’d rather they were relevant.

I guess it’s good for the paranoid, though why they’d choose to use the Internet at all, I just don’t know.

Pretty much my thoughts too. Tinfoil hats aside, if I have to be subjected to advertising then I’d rather it was something I was vaguely interested in.