How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Go [home] [clear cookies] URL: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57417419-285/how-to-delete-yourself-from-the-internet/

Options:

Encode URL

Encode Page

Allow Cookies

Remove Objects

CNET How To

Home Reviews
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r

Search CNET
Suggested searches

Cell Phones

Camcorders Digital Cameras Laptops TVs Car Tech Forums Appliances Cell Phone Accessories Components Desktops E-book Readers Games and Gear GPS Hard Drives & Storage Headphones Home Audio Home Video Internet Access Monitors MP3 Players Networking and Wi-Fi Peripherals Printers Software Tablets Web Hosting

News
r r r r r r r r r r r r Latest News Mobile Startups Cutting Edge Internet & Media Security & Privacy Business Tech Crave Apple Microsoft Politics & Law Tech Culture

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (1 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

r r r r

Blogs Video Photos RSS

Download
r r r r r Windows Software Mac Software iOS Apps Android Apps The Download Blog

CNET TV
Products Tech Shows r How To r Most Popular New Releases
r r

How To
r r r r r

Computers

Home Theater Smartphones Tablets Web

Marketplace
r r r r Today's Deals Exclusive Deals Coupon Codes Marketplace Blog

Log In | Join r Log In r Join CNET r Sign in with

Home How To

How to delete yourself from the Internet

You may not feel like the flotsam and jetsam that make up the facts of your life are important, but increasingly companies are using that dry data to make your every online step as indelible as if written in blood. Here's how to take back
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (2 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

your digital dignity.

by Seth Rosenblatt April 19, 2012 6:19 PM PDT Follow @b1g1nj4p4n

The Internet companies that power your online life know that data equals money, and they're becoming bolder about using that data to track you. If they get their way, your every online step would be not only irrevocable, but traceable back to you. Fortunately, there are some positive steps you can take to reclaim your online history for yourself. The online privacy software company Abine, which makes Do Not Track Plus, also offers a service called DeleteMe, which removes your data from numerous tracking sites and keeps it from coming back. In an unusual gesture, though, they've made public how to do for yourself everything that DeleteMe does. Here's my take on their advice. Be warned, though. The following are not easy instructions, and it's not because they're technically complex. They require a tenacity and wherewithal that is likely to either exhaust you, drive you borderline bonkers, or both. (And no, I haven't followed the instructions to remove myself because it's essential to my job that I can be found by strangers.)

Step 1: Prepare yourself: You're going to have to be polite. These instructions require patience for the antics of others and determination to get the job done. It's not a bad idea to get something inanimate to take your frustrations out on, because often getting your data
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (3 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

successfully removed or changed will require the good faith of the person you're dealing with. Things are not likely to go your way the first time around.

Step 2: Aggressively track sites that aggressively track you. This is where the DeleteMe service comes in. They currently charge you $99 to un-track you from the tracking data clearinghouses, which in turn sell your data to others entities. You can follow Abine's list of services and do the deed yourself, and that means writing many e-mails, sending numerous faxes, and placing enough phone calls to make you wish for a time machine so you can go back to the 19th century to do violence unto Alexander Graham Bell.
One thing that isn't clear from Abine's list is that most of these data aggregators will re-add you within a few months, so I recommend at least bi-annual checks to see if they've sucked up your data again. Be tenacious, be polite, and if this is important to you, stick with it until you get what you want. If you're concerned about privacy and people making connections between your birthday, your address, and your Social Security number, you owe it to yourself to perform at least one Web search for your name and see what comes up. You might be unpleasantly surprised.

Step 3: To protect your reputation, removal must be done from the source. To get Google, Bing, and other search engines to notice a change in information as it is presented on the Web, the original site hosting that information must change. It doesn't matter which site is the source. It could be Facebook, or a local blog, or a gaming forum. If it's showing up in search results, it has little to do with the search engine and everything to do with the site of origin. Once that site has changed, then you'll see a change in the search results.
Getting something removed from a site is not a scientific process, even though you must be methodical about it. Ask politely, and as I noted above, you're likely to have to ask more than once and using more than one way to communicate. You likely will have to be a rake at the gates of Hell, but one that uses words like "please" and "thank you". Look for the name of a writer, or Web site manager, and if no contact information is listed, do a WhoIs search by typing "whois www.site-name.com". Be sure to include the quotes. That will tell you who registered the site, which is a good place to start on smaller Web sites. Look for phone numbers, e-mail, and fax numbers, and follow up your initial communication. Once you have a name, even if you can't find a phone number or e-mail, you can probably take an educated stab at one. Use a site like E-mail Format to help you out. And in your e-mail, be sure to explain clearly, concisely, and logically why your request ought to be honored. A willingness to compromise can get you better results, too. If, for example, your initial request to fully remove your name gets refused, see if asking to have your identity anonymized will work. And if one person at the site you've contacted keeps stalling you, see if there's another you can contact instead.

Step 4: Get Google to hustle on search engine changes. If you've been successful in changing a site, but Google is still showing the older version, you can use Google's
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (4 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

URL Removal Tool to accelerate the process. Note that this will require a Google account, and that if you get Google to change, you're going to have to submit requests to other major search engines like Bing separately.

Step 5: Paint over the bad with good. In cases where you can't get the site to remove the content that's negatively affecting your reputation, you can create new, fresh, positive content to counteract it. The idea is that the Positive You will bury the Negative You. Rick Santorum is a great example of how this can work in reverse, and no, I'm not going to link to it for you.
You can also use social-networking sites to bury bad news. From About.Me to Flickr to Twitter, social networks tend to rank highly in search results. By creating and maintaining accounts that use your real name, you can elevate the social networking results for your name and, ideally, drop the results you want to bury onto the second page of results. Since studies show that second-page results are viewed significantly less often than first-page, this could be a successful burying strategy. However, a key component of this is linking the networks, so be prepared to do far more social networking than you had been.

Step 6: Go (politely) nuclear. Get a lawyer. If you suspect something is actually defamatory, seek out legal advice. Gather your evidence, be polite and firm, and seek out someone who can guide you through the thorny legal thicket. This will also depend on your country -- England has much broader defamation and libel laws than the United States does -- and your budget.
My colleague Declan McCullagh noted a potential complication in hiring a lawyer: SLAPP laws. Although they vary from state to state, they all basically aim to prevent unsubstantiated legal threats. If you threaten someone, that person can turn around and sue you for attorneys fees and damages.

The bottom line: There is no foolproof method for changing how you're presented on the Internet, whether looking at purely personally-identifiable data or the much more subjective presentation of your personal reputation. However, if these are concerns of yours, you're not alone out there, and these six steps will give you concrete actions you can take to reclaim your identity and repair how others see you.
Topics: Security, Privacy Tags: reputation, privacy, data, security

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (5 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Don't Miss

Seth Rosenblatt
Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to, including browsers and security on Windows, Mac, and Android. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2, although let's face it: there are far scarier things out there besides long-dead operating

How Google's Drive helps kill Microsoft's Office Internet & Media

systems. For instance, take the rumored Angry Birds/FarmVille crossover app... Follow @b1g1nj4p4n

How CISPA would affect you (faq) Privacy Inc.

Space shuttle Enterprise flies by New York City (photos) Slideshow

Tiny device makes any stereo wireless Review

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (6 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Popular Headlines

Googling 'zerg rush' sends you to battle to save your search results Internet & Media

How Google's Drive helps kill Microsoft's Office Internet & Media

How CISPA would affect you (faq) Privacy Inc.

Latest Tech News

The ZTE Score gets a sporty makeover for MetroPCS Dialed In

Dates of possible ICS upgrades for T-Mobile devices revealed Mobile

Nokia demos indoor-location tracking with 'white space' tech Mobile

40 comments

Join the conversation!

your comment (Log in or register)

Add

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (7 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

$99 bucks for DeleteMe? A tinfoil hat is much cheaper! Posted by gwhiz2K (1576 comments ) April 19, 2012 6:35 PM (PDT) Like (8) Reply Link Flag It's surely cheaper than the lawyer recommended in the last section. Posted by freemarket--2008 (3038 comments ) April 20, 2012 5:37 AM (PDT) Like (4) Link Flag It's also cheaper than the time you would spend yourself doing it. It's not as cheap as taking the kinds of precautions that would prevent it from being a problem in the first place. Posted by Renegade Knight (10588 comments ) April 20, 2012 6:39 AM (PDT) Like (4) Link Flag Government on every country should have option if someone want to delete their own info from internet/www by his/her own request from a department. If government stepped in, it should be done easily. Posted by DaiaX (11 comments ) April 19, 2012 7:36 PM (PDT) Like (2) Reply Link Flag Who do you think has a vested interest in tracking you? Posted by DigitalFrog (260 comments ) April 20, 2012 9:00 AM (PDT) Like (4) Link Flag @DigitalFrog Do you have any idea who you're talking to? No? Neither do I. But THEY do. Posted by TCrimson05 (226 comments ) April 20, 2012 2:21 PM (PDT) Like Link Flag Government cannot order somebody to delete someone's else info. It would be violation of freeedom of speech. If information is released, it is in public domain - everybody could read it and distribute it. As long as information is accurate, nothing could prevent people from distributing it. If I see you urinating on your own lawn, I could tell it to everybody, I could post it on every website, with your name and address - if it's accurate - nobody coild stop be from distributing information. Posted by SergeM256 (1599 comments ) April 21, 2012 12:16 PM (PDT) Like (2) Link Flag I see you are new to the internet. Posted by TheEddy (37 comments ) April 21, 2012 5:37 PM (PDT) Like (1) Link Flag @TheEddy Sorry for being new. I still think it's possible. Posted by DaiaX (11 comments ) April 22, 2012 11:18 PM (PDT) Like Link Flag Cleaning up your online record is even more difficult than you might think. Do you own property? Do you have a license through a local, state or federal government agency? Have you ever received a traffic ticket? Have you ever been involved in a lawsuit? Are you a registered voter? Do you have
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (8 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

a criminal past? These are just a few examples of public records the government keeps on you. Even if you are able to eliminate your presence on social networks or other online entities, a person seeking to obtain information about you can do so easily (and legally) by going in person or online to a respective government agency. Posted by emb615 (1 comment ) April 19, 2012 8:50 PM (PDT) Like (6) Reply Link Flag first of all your property should NEVER be registered under you ask a lawyer set up a llc put it in the companies name, great shield from lawsuits, i know my llc owns another llc and thats where my property is listed lol. its almost totally protected from anything. having a common name is great, also change your name once or twice. i know all my mail goes to a a junk depository in another state. put utilities in a childs name. title your car under a trusted family member. i know at my adult age i still have both my cars under my fathers name, and he passed away almost a decade ago. you really cant find me. as far as general browsing tor gets you pretty far. an overseas proxy is twice as good. it does take time and effort but a google of my full name the first link is an obit and there is nothing about me on the first 15 pages. i dont go further than that because no one else will either. Posted by dodgeman007 (1144 comments ) April 19, 2012 9:43 PM (PDT) Like (2) Link Flag @dodgeman007 While I certaily think it's fair for you to take precautions and such, I don't think it's ethical at all to drag other peoles names into your own problem with being tracked. That makes your problem there problem on top of their own tracking issues. Posted by Renegade Knight (10588 comments ) April 20, 2012 6:42 AM (PDT) Like (4) Link Flag @dodgeman007 I concur with Renegade Knight, and add that some of what you recommend is also incredibly unethical and possibly illegal in some case. Utilities in a child's name? Bad faith dealing on your part that would make any court find you still liable for the debts. Car is titled in a deceased family member's name? Not anymore... it belongs to whoever got the estate. Frankly the whole "proprety in an LLC" business is just bizarre. Millions and millions of people own property in their own name and never have one iota of trouble. I can't even fathom the level of paranoia these layers of LLCs must take outside of complex corporate liability issues. Posted by Irishsof (82 comments ) April 20, 2012 9:26 AM (PDT) Like (4) Link Flag @dodgeman007 Bill Gates - is it you? Perhaps, some people with net value over $100 million should take some precautions and keep their properties registered on front-end corporations but for the rest of us all this seems a little bit excessive. Posted by SergeM256 (1599 comments ) April 21, 2012 1:20 PM (PDT) Like (1) Link Flag If you want "privacy", throw your computer in the garbage. Posted by ThatGuy90 (25 comments ) April 19, 2012 9:00 PM (PDT) Like (13) Reply Link Flag You could just unplug it from the net. It's so much cheaper.
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (9 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Posted by Renegade Knight (10588 comments ) April 20, 2012 6:42 AM (PDT) Like (2) Link Flag what's the point in owning a computer with no internet? lol Posted by ThatGuy90 (25 comments ) April 20, 2012 3:59 PM (PDT) Like (3) Link Flag Solitaire. Posted by Dani210 (265 comments ) April 23, 2012 12:35 PM (PDT) Like Link Flag I like the burry option, very easy to do, as for the others, not so much... Seth you should go invisible to make the point Posted by mnoi (31 comments ) April 19, 2012 9:33 PM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag There is a much easier option and for FREE http://www.donottrack.me You can remove all Apps tracking you and opt-out from Ad networks, for FREE. It take 2min Posted by TimmyRo (5 comments ) April 20, 2012 12:23 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag Yeahh...THAT sounds pretty legit. Not. Posted by onehorn (36 comments ) April 20, 2012 3:53 AM (PDT) Like (2) Link Flag The real link, for Do Not Track Plus (for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari), is: http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php? Posted by obviouslynotduckwithnukes (2284 comments ) April 20, 2012 5:01 PM (PDT) Like Link Flag It used to be back in the win 95 days the easiest way to hide yourself was to simply make a fake e-mail account in outlook express, make it the primary account, and just deal with the error message saying the account was not valid every time you sent/received. This made trackers log an invalid e-mail address with usually rather rude subliminal messages embedded into it. I have no idea how you would go about that in the day of web mail, but last I knew IE and I assume other browsers, can only report your primary e-mail account in a cookie. You also created a bogus e-mail through yahoo [not there is hotmail/gmail and million other mails] and used it to create any account such as the one here on cnet and only used it for that purpose, assume anything else in it is spam and delete it. Once again you can put in a fake name into the webmail config and they do not care, so more subliminal back lash was the usual. Who cares if they track a figment of you imagination? I imagine if you can force yourself to use a real e-mail program such as thunderbird or even windows e-mail program whatever they call it today and set up the fake account as the primary you can still basically feed the trackers useless info wasting their time and money for the slight inconvenience of clicking an ignore error button ever so often. Though one would need to be more familiar than HTML/java/activeX/whatever else apps than I am. To be sure. It used to just be banners with tracking cookies then came popups now those gd forward to a completely different page ads. Posted by WaCableTech (1 comment ) April 20, 2012 6:06 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag or you can do some basic things like NOT join facebook or linkedin. i have twitter under a completely
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (10 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

nonsense name (like @santaclaus, @easterbunny, @batman....etc) and thats linked to a separate email that i use just for spam, which i never check. only my close friends/family know its me behind that name. if u want to use a website that require a login, go to bugmenot to get a fake login. and use things like ghostify, adblocker, click & clean, and Ccleaner to delete cookies EVERY time you close your browser. Posted by petp (25 comments ) April 20, 2012 7:06 AM (PDT) Like (1) Reply Link Flag There is nothing stopping you from using a useless email and fake name on Facebook. Posted by Mich072 (7 comments ) April 21, 2012 10:42 AM (PDT) Like (1) Link Flag That's why they charge $99... Posted by StevenTorrey (47 comments ) April 20, 2012 11:38 AM (PDT) Like (2) Reply Link Flag I usually enjoy reading Rosenblatt's columns, but honestly this just looks like filler and a shameful plug for Abine...and a round about way to urge reader's to buy this dubious software. Posted by jamieone (31 comments ) April 20, 2012 12:31 PM (PDT) Like (1) Reply Link Flag Abine's 'Do Not Track Plus' is FREE and works. Right now it says this on cnet.com: cnet.com 2 social networks tracking you:2 blocked 1 ad network tracking you: 1 blocked 4 companies tracking you: 4 blocked Excellent! Your all-time total is: 20,512 blocked Abine.com | the Online Privacy Company I've been using it for several weeks and haven't had a problem. It blocks sites or you can allow them. Posted by kajunman (8 comments ) April 21, 2012 9:41 AM (PDT) Like Link Flag WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF FREEDOM! 1. The freedom to be tracked by anyone anywhere. 2. The freedom to join a slow-moving parking lot(also known as 'FREEway'),driving your own car. 3. The freedom to be at the mercy of a for-profit outfit which also happens to decide on your health benefits (or lack thereof). It's up to us, the people. As long as we accept these 'freedoms', nothing will change... Posted by urr_quasdim (128 comments ) April 20, 2012 4:49 PM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag Make an alias and use it when you think what you are saying can hurt your real identity. Posted by MrGelowe (19 comments ) April 21, 2012 9:14 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag Anything that is out there is impossible to remove permanently. Don't give out information in the first place that you don't want known. To post here using Yahoo, one has to allow complete violation of Yahoo privacy. I like that others use their real names on Facebook, but I would never do that - same for Google+. And since I
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (11 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

am known on my Facebook account by my friends, I have another one to protect myself from privacy invaders such as any site like this that wants to "link" my info. If you give your home address out ever, it will follow you and be known for many years into the future. I give any address but my current home address to those who have no absolute need to have it. My previous address is violated, so I use it for those for whom the info is none of their business. Mail is collected at a mail service. Protect yourself prophylactically, and don't spend a dime trying to remove what will never go away. Posted by ZoeRivers (1 comment ) April 21, 2012 9:27 AM (PDT) Like (1) Reply Link Flag Personally, I don't care if I'm tracked... sometimes they find stuff for me I didn't know I needed or where to even start looking...if they annoy me with pages of e-mail...yahoo gives me the option of deleting such pages. Remember the skeet-shooter in "Secondhand Lions"? Well, they wouldn't have known the fun they where missing if the salesman hadn't learned something about them. Posted by kennyrayjohnson (1 comment ) April 21, 2012 9:30 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag Seth, You honest write the best blog posts on CNET. *hat tip. Brendon Posted by kmartcart (8 comments ) April 21, 2012 9:58 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag krj- u don't care if you're tracked, but what if those trackers could track/ seek more than just you? what if every contact, every name, every person becomes 'trackable' through you? (Bots, for example.. 1 type). sure, u may not have account information or personal data on your machine, but what about your parents? Your significant other? Your kids? Their kids? & consider this: if there's a way in, there's a way out. U may not have anything advertisers or hackers or phishers or whatever can PULL from your machine, but imagine for a second what could be PUT ON your machine... and proliferate henceforth... Posted by aychp3a (2 comments ) April 21, 2012 11:53 AM (PDT) Like (1) Link Flag if ye shall seek, then ye shall find... u want a secure way to access the internet? likely even faster than a windows OS. LINUX IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE. download Ubuntu (ya its FREE)- check it out. For those who are intimidated & wanna stick with windows: no 1 program is gonna do it for ya. Spybot S+D, spyware blaster, glary utilities, A FIREWALL OTHER THAN WINDOWS, with or without an antivirus (check out comodo), avira is awesome free av... & try a TOR browser (add-on 4 firefox or OperaTor, & learn to use it effectively. Use private browsing option. Firefox also has WOT, gHOSTERY, TRACK ME NOT, no script... and deny javascripting options. Do some research, ask questions. keep what is yours safe. Safer, anyway. Posted by aychp3a (2 comments ) April 21, 2012 11:41 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag I didn't realize the hassle it would take to delete you from the internet! $99.00 isn't that bad because I wouldn't do it myself. Posted by shar_sanchez (161 comments ) April 21, 2012 1:10 PM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag best idea is to be a troll. read, post, search for - various things, so Big Brother wont be able to see whats the real you among all that mess.
http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (12 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Posted by mootant (10 comments ) April 21, 2012 7:57 PM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag Sometimes it is in your best interest to let falsehoods stand. Example: SPOKEHOE has my age listed in the 70's age bracket. While I find it extremely funny, I understand that this makes people who are nosing on me think it isn't me. The constant mail offers for Belltone and AARP memberships are funny as hell! Posted by aquatica8 (2 comments ) April 21, 2012 8:32 PM (PDT) Like (1) Reply Link Flag want to confuse those tracking you on the net ? Every time you complete personal details, change one piece of info, i.e., change the year of your birth, then next time change the spelling of your surname by one letter. Again , next time change the day (date) or month of your birthday & do make one change every time you complete any personal details. If you keep doing this , it will confuse any computer tracking system & there will be multiple persons listed on their data bases with similar details but will be listed as different people. It works ! Posted by sabusforms (7 comments ) April 23, 2012 12:53 AM (PDT) Like (1) Reply Link Flag It looks like "The BLATT" wrote an advertising piece. Lucky for him none of the stuff he is peddling actually works because the last thing CNET would do is actually help anyone. On a side note, isn't Monday and 1:20PM EST? I think it is time for CNET to do its daily upload of its user information to the top secret CIA/FBI/ NSA/White House/BATF/Mossad/ISI/MI5/MI6/Google/Facebook databases. Posted by RobertinOhio (180 comments ) April 23, 2012 10:22 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag

Join the conversation

Log in or create an account to post a comment, or quickly sign in with:

Featured Posts

Comment

Apple TV set chatter heats up with rumored content talks Apple

Add your comment

The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. Click here to review our Terms of Use.

How Google's Drive helps kill Microsoft's Office Internet & Media

Googling 'zerg rush' sends you to battle to save your search results Internet & Media

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (13 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

How CISPA would affect you (faq) Privacy Inc.

Friday Poll: Do you believe in alien UFOs? Crave

Most Popular

Kristofize: Social birthday present for Nick Kristof aims to do good 1kFacebook Likes

How CISPA would affect you (faq) 681Tweets

Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs 166Google Plus Shares

262 comments Dear Tim Cook: Apple is not the world's tech inventor 262Comments

About How To
CNET How To teaches you how to get the most out of your digital devices. CNET editors share tricks and tips for making your phone, tablet, computer, home theater, and the Web as useful and fun as possible.

RSS Subscribe

my Yahoo

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (14 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Add this Feed

Google Add this Feed

MSN Add this Feed

CNET Mobile Apps

CNET On The Go. Download the native CNET app for the platform of your choice.
Download Now

2012 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Ad Choice Terms of Use Mobile User Agreement Visit other CBS Interactive sites: Select Site Reviews All Reviews Camcorders Car Tech Cell Phones Digital Cameras

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (15 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

GPS Laptops TVs News All News Business Tech Crave Cutting Edge Green Tech Security Wireless Downloads Add Your Software All Downloads Mac Mobile Software Deals Webware Windows CNET TV All Videos Apple Byte Buzz Report CNET Top 5 Loaded Prizefight More About CBS Interactive About CNET CNET Deals CNET Forums CNET Mobile CNET Site Map Corrections Help Center Permissions Follow us via... Facebook Twitter Google+ YouTube LinkedIn Tumblr

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (16 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]

How to delete yourself from the Internet | How To - CNET

Pinterest Newsletters RSS

http://00zero.co.uk/browse.php?u=Oi8vaG93dG8uY25ldC5jb20vODMw...G93LXRvLWRlbGV0ZS15b3Vyc2VsZi1mcm9tLXRoZS1pbnRlcm5ldC8%3D&b=5 (17 of 17) [4/27/2012 5:42:26 PM]