Windows 10: New service aims to follow users across multiple devices...A Primer...

Saw this today and had to take a break from my sabbatical......

All companies in the initiative are listed on Adobe’s website, a break from some companies’ practice of referring only to unspecified partners.

“We’re doing everything we can not letting brands hide themselves,” Ahuja said.

But in taking an opt-out approach, which is common in the industry, Adobe assumes that users consent. And it places the burden on consumers to learn about this initiative and to figure out how they can opt out of it.

https://New service aims to follow users across multiple devices | apnews.com/ Clicking on the second link in the quoted article: consumers a chance to opt out will take you to the Adobe site but as far as I could tell; There was no way to opt-out of anything, at best you can check to see if you have any connected devices.

I decided to investigate. To paraphrase:

Allow me to lighten that burden; Go here: Adobe.com opt-out page | Adobe - Privacy Policy Scrolling down about half way you'll see a blue oval to set your preferences, it'll take you to an all on or off adobe page that seems to work, you'll see what I mean if you try it. But before you go there scroll down more to set more opt-outs.

To further your adventure click on the see more companies link above Apply Changes select all and wait a minute and you should see a new page open, I say a minute because if you don't it'll look like some check boxes weren't changed to opted-out. Then it'll say:

Now for the pièce de résistance... When you're finished there go back to where you clicked on the see more companies link and click on Evidon Discover more. When there point to Resources >Look to the right for Privacy Controls >Global Consent Preferences, click on that. To the right of the .dB click on the blue Opt-out all button let it work and you should see a pop-up working then saying it changed 192 out of 193 sites, but wait; Looking at the .dB there are 778 entries and Evidon only allows 25 per page so that's what? 31.12 clicks to check and see if the 193 are correctly changed.

Oh, if you find you can't get rid if the 193 pop-up, refresh the page.

And it gets better, here's what I found for two sites:

• cop.evidon.com/companies/marketgid-usa didn't have either an opt-out box or go to site link. page series 176-200
• cop.evidon.com/companies/xad (aka GroundTruth) had a box to click but it wouldn't take my click cmd to opt-out. on page series 326-350. I believe that's the 1 out of 193 that wouldn't flip.

If you've gotten this far I thank you and appreciate the effort it took to get this far, it took me about two hours to navigate these four sites and if Adobe thinks they made the opt-out process easier *really , I'll kiss their butt because this

is either an outright lie or their not ready yet and the article beat them to it.

And don't forget:

If you're a user that appreciates ads you don't have to do anything, but at least you'll know what's going on and how to get there.

:)

 

Calendar Appointments 8 hours Early for Recurring Meetings on WM6 & WM5 Phones using Windows Mobile Device Center

DiveDr said:
I have had problems with both but the work around fixed them all. The other thing you can do is to set up multiple user profiles one for ActiveStync and one for your hotmail MAPI accounts. I do wish Microsoft would fix this though!

By multiple users, do you mean as users on a machine or users in outlook? Do you have a quick minute to post a primer on how to do so?

 

Windows Security Center Missing From Services Windows 10 64 Bit

Hi All,

I'm having the unable to start security center message and have tried to follow multiple threads on here but none seem to aimed at Windows 10 so are a little difficult to follow.

In 'Services' the Security Center is not listed so i'm really stuck as to what to do now?