Here is the link:
http://www.quantcast.com/drugbuyers.com#lifestyle

Down at the bottom of the page it tells what other websites drugbuyers.com users commonly visit, and what internet searches they make. Also, there are different tabs you can look at with some other types of information.

good information...thanks for sharing!

This would be extremely disturbing if most of the sites they reference really don't seem like the type of sites educated folks from here would visit. If these sites were on target...how did they get this information.

that is amazing!

http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/Methodology+FAQ

Explains how they gather information.
Cookies, Cookies and more Cookies.

Wait until you get a knock on the door for the sites you visit. For you in the UK ... you are probably first as the government is already monitoring your internet and email activity.

Quantcast is a very neat site. There's a firefox plugin that cuts down on all the cookie crumb trails your leaving behind.

Makes you want to toss your cookies doesn't it !!!

Interesting but know this site is about as accurate as Alexa. And if don't know, Alexa is hardly accurate.

Some of the info makes sense and most is just wrong, outdated, or misleading.
But we will mention to our potential advertisers that Quantcast puts us on rank 25,347
If that was true only 25,347 sites of the billions out there are more popular than ours :-)

We also like this but really think our visitors are more female than male:

How can they possibly know what our annual incomes are????

they average it regarding the sites you visit. not to say they are accurate but they figure if you are visiting the wall street journal web site then you are in a higher income bracket, if you are visiting college humor then you are in a lower income bracket...etc as someone else said... COOKIES... yum yum yum

always clear your cache and history or use private browsing and clear your cookies every time you close your browser (or set to no cookies allowed and they cant collect any info, although many sites will not work properly if they can not set cookies) i have mine set to only allow cookies to sites i visit. then i dump them before i close my browser.

It simply looks at the demographics of people based on IP addresses. It is not exact. Quantcast basically sees us as well of white people, mostly over 40.

That is pretty neat. Interesting.

Cool Thanks

thats some good info.be right back. gotta toss some cookies1

hi rollingrick and everybody else reading this.
i am relatively new here and was doing my homework, just getting familiar with the site Rules, perks, etc. rick can you tell me which firefox add-on you are talking about, to cut down on cookie trails? i want to download it. thanks!
scott in sf

It's probably Cookie Culler, though CCleaner will do the same and more besides. For a free program, things really don't get better than that. You can also manually delete cookies in FF, and choose not to accept any in the first place, or no 3rd-party cookies.

Alexa gets even more detailed with demographics and all. (click on the tabs across the top of the page for different info)

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/drugbuyers.com

there is another site that will even show top posters and clickthroughs etc. i will have to look for it. cant remember off the top of my head.

I use CCleaner and every time I get off the internet I run it. Just 2 clicks and all those temp files, cookies, etc. are gone. I love it!

thanks for the info - i think my spyware doctor gets rid of the cookies and other adware when i run it.

Why run Spyware Doctor to get rid of cookies when you can simply delete them? It makes the scan take longer, and deleting cookies yourself guarantees that they are deleted.

Use Mozilla Firefox and set it up to do it by itself every time you get out of Windows. Also deletes browsing history. And much faster that IE.

So, if I were to delete all my cookies, would that cause me to lose some of my settings for sites I visit - for example auto-login?

some but not all. depends on who you use and how you have it set. i use google chrome then use the incognito window so every time you close the browser it clears the cookies,cache and whatever else you set it for. no matter what i'm doing ,i'm clearing all the time. thanks to the info from this thread. thanks fb

It will not be long before people's ip addresses are listed, just like their old land line phone numbers.

All websites have the ip address that you used when you logged in, or even browsed, in a big file. No cookie needed for that.

The websites actually have automated processes, depending on what O/S they run, that will tell them where (approximately) the geographic connections are coming from in real time.

And if you at a large website consolidator, like Akamai, then you can get all kinds of cool info, from the same ip, because while that person thinks they are traversing multiple physical sites, they may actually be on a SAN or NAS that is hosting multiple websites.

So, say the ip address orders goods at one website, using their name, address and phone number, and there was some tiny little blurb that the person behind that ip address never read saying "by clicking NEXT you agree..."

One of the things you agreed to, is letting the website gather all that info. Where you are, the website you were last at before you got to this one, and when you leave that website, the next website you have gone off to.

No one is invisible.

And when every ip address is made public, (hey, they said it would never happen with cell phones, and that went through without a peep) oh well, I am one of the paranoid ones who believes that there is that great big database that tracks all your movements at all times. I know all the seperate pieces exist. Just a matter of time before everything is hooked up and searchable.

Everything is available if you have the right knowlege, friends, or money. Nothing is secret or sacred for the vast majority of us.

Stop picking your nose.

nose goblin - a special creature that lives in your nose that is always happy to keep you company when boredom strikes.

Damn you O&W. I was reading the post then got your yours and I spit my damn coffee all over my screen.
Still love ya though.

Taz

Ha; that's why I always keep a roll of paper towels nearby when online.

Anyone know the best way to clean my screen?

Handi wipes and chemtronics cleaner degreaser. We use touch screen technology at work and this really gets the oil print marks from ones oily finger tips. www.chemtronics.com

you can find something similar at a Best Buy or Radio Shack.

Thanks a million wofer! I really appreciate the info!

Well it needed a good cleaning anyways. I used the wet eye glass wipes and it does a good job. No streaks. I was worried, cause I have a 22" flat screen. I knew it would happen sooner or later. But I didn't think I would be the one to mess it up.

I'll keep some wipes here in my drawer in case I run across O&W's one liners again.

Not directed at you Taz, but, keeping on topic, I saw Alexa on yesterday crawling with a search spider.

Really?

Oh yes, however, it's really no suprise to me.

I personally use Firefox on both my Linux and (sadly) Windoze boxen. What I prefer to do is just use a secure delete tool on my cache, cookies etc... Makes things a hell of a lot easier, and generally makes it safer; especially considering DB can be considered to be risky business. This makes it practically impossible for anyone to recover anything meaningful from your HDD. As long as you use a lot of passes and random data to overwrite - and preferably wipe RAM.

srm - Secure Removal Tool for LINUX

eraser - Secure Removal Tool for WINDOWS

Lastly, remember: When you delete ANYTHING on Windows or any other file system - with right clck delete etc. or even with CCleaner (providing you haven't configured it to not do this) it will NEVER really delete a file, rather, it removes the reference to it from your HDD. Meaning that ANY average Joe has a good chance of recovering the files, and law-enforcement have more so. If you use the above tools, even the FBI and CID would probably struggle recovering data, and only if they were to invest millions could they have a hope in hell of recovering it - and still probably would fail.

That is not to say that you should assume you are 100% secure and free from worry; because you are not.

Thanks Taz for pointing that out. I just set mine to do the same.

@meonlyits - You should really look into the method I outlined above; Taz's methods is all well and good, but to anyone with the slightest knowledge, all that information is recoverable. If you want to do anything, set it so it doesn't even record browsing history etc.. and securely wipe cookies.

@genethebean1 - I found that LastPass is effective for keeping login information and auto-login etc.. However, this isn't the most secure of things to use, by any means.

Mine automatically does all that. That's how I set it up.

Firefox is the bomb. LOL

It automatically does what? Securely wipes the cookies and history (doubt it)? or just doesn't save the history in the first place?

Point I was making is that using Firefox to wipe history etc is inefficient

I'm also using the new Windows 7. Everytime I get out of my browsers, I only have to click one item and that is browsing history and it does the rest for me.

@Taz - It doesn't matter, it doesn't change the fact that if browsing history exists during the session, unless it is stored on RAM, it will NOT be securely deleted, and can be potentially recovered.

Just to jump in here - I had a boss last year who thought he was very computer proficient. He had a problem with his computer, and asked me to take a look rather than our IT department (he just doesn't like those guys, LOL!)

While I was on his system, he asked me to look and see if I could tell where he had been on the internet. He was pretty proud of having everything set up to clean his browser history, cache, cookies, etc. and he was using Firefox.

Well, long story short, in about 15 minutes I was able, via simple and a little bit more than simple (though just a little bit) means to tell him the various sites he visited. He was shocked, p***ed off, etc. I referred him to a true secure erasing type program such as above.

I've done the same with a guy at work who is using the new Windows 7. All those cache and cookie and history clearing buttons do is clear them for someone who would look in the most simple of ways - they do NOT securely clean the system.

Didn't know where to post this and not sure how to start a new topic so here goes. Thought it was interesting. Note that the "speaker" mentions "pain meds" but only Benzos are shown. He just "HAD" to get in that "pain med".

http://www.wmur.com/video/21544860/index.html

Thanks CG, I'm giving it a try. Anything helps.

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