Patent ID: 8701201

Claim:
A computer readable medium containing instructions for an Internet-connected computer of the user to perform a method of protecting the privacy of user, the computer of the user having a memory within which is stored cookies and information relating to websites visited, the method comprising the steps of: (a) manually initiating a search of the memory of the user's computer to identify all cookies stored in the computer memory designed to track the user's computer behavior; (b) the user's computer automatically disabling all of the cookies in the user's computer memory identified by the search; (c) the user's computer using each of the disabled cookies in the user's computer's memory to identify the source of each of the disabled cookies; (d) the user's computer automatically creating and forwarding a message to the source of each disabled cookie in the user's computer memory that the user does not want to have the user's computer behavior observed and/or to receive any advertising until further notice; (e) the user's computer automatically creating and forwarding a message to the user's Internet service provider that the user does not want to receive any advertising and/or that computer observation activity is to be suspended by the Internet service provider until further notice; (f) the user' computer automatically searching the memory of the user's computer to identify websites visited by the user on the computer during a given time period; and (g) the user's computer automatically creating and forwarding a message to websites identified in the search that the user does not want to have user's computer behavior observed and/or to receive any advertising until further notice.