{"id":573,"date":"2010-07-21T07:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T07:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internettipoftheweek.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T07:24:54","slug":"how-to-opt-out-of-behavioral-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/tech\/573\/how-to-opt-out-of-behavioral-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behavioral advertising is online advertising based on your history of online activity.  For example, if you visit an online shoe vendor, as you travel around the Internet, you might notice ads from that vendor appearing on unrelated, third party sites.   This &#8220;trick&#8221; is accomplished by small cookie files that are stored on your computer by your browser.   To opt-out of behavioral advertising (often called &#8220;remarketing&#8221;) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkadvertising.org\/managing\/opt_out.asp\">National Advertising Initiative<\/a> provides a resource where you can see which advertising networks have placed cookies on your computer, and gives you the opportunity to opt out of seeing any more targeted ads from those ad networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behavioral advertising is online advertising based on your history of online activity. For example, if you visit an online shoe vendor, as you travel around the Internet, you might notice ads from that vendor appearing on unrelated, third party sites. &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/tech\/573\/how-to-opt-out-of-behavioral-advertising\/\">[Continue]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[444,445,446,447,448,385,449,450,451,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-privacy","7":"tag-advertising-networks","8":"tag-advertising-online","9":"tag-browser","10":"tag-cookie-files","11":"tag-history-online","12":"tag-initiative","13":"tag-national-advertising","14":"tag-online-advertising","15":"tag-opportunity","16":"tag-unrelated-third-party","17":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How To Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising &#187; Tech Tips \u00bb Surfnetkids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Behavioral advertising is online advertising based on your history of online activity. 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