How is this corrupt, or greedy?
How is this invasive?
Certainly, it's opportunist - but that's most of the free market. It's people
developing new products and services and trying to sell them to you, and
marketing/advertising is how they get it to you. If they can do that
cheaper/better,
Ken, you may have got a whiff of a hint that I don't like advertising, no
matter where or why it's in front of me, or what deal put it there. I find
targeted advertising particularly frightening and objectionable, it's a
kind of perversion of technology. I have no sympathy for advertisers. The
There are other words you could use to describe someone who wants
everything for free and won't pay (or expect others to pay) for what they
use.
Not wanting this to degenerate into name calling, and everyone are
different. Its not wrong to want a good deal, and everyone loves freebies
just the
Advertising doesn't exist in a vacuum - it exists (like every other good and
service) because people think it's worth paying for - unfortunate as that may
be. Watching Gruen Transfer/Gruen World is enlightening for those outside the
marketing/advertising world.
But personal dislike doesn't
On 2 December 2013 10:16, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote:
There are other words you could use to describe someone who wants
everything for free and won't pay (or expect others to pay) for what they
use.
Not wanting this to degenerate into name calling, and everyone are
There's a little cross in the top left hand of each of the Facebook ads. It
doesn't stop the ads, you just get different ones, but it's fun to say you
don't want an advert for Christmas Cake because it's sexually explicit, or
flowers because you find it offensive :-)
On 2 December 2013 10:37,
Greg,
Take a look at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ - spend a busy day with
that turned on.
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I think the raw nerve that is struck with a lot of people (perhaps Greg,
perhaps not) is that there is an underlaying fear of manipulation, or
domination. These advertisers are hooking into your psyche, manipulating
you, often without you realising it.
Psychology is an amazing thing because we
+1 to AWS Route 53. Gives us everything we need, and very cheap.
On 29 November 2013 13:07, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Thanks chaps for plenty of ideas to investigate.
I just received a reply from IntaServe who have hosted our domain names
(not DNS records) for several years, they
Adsense is Google's product for the phenomena. On this page in gmail, I
see ads for Social Media Metrics, Restaurants in Melbourne (one of you
guys) Low home rate loans, painter quotes, Debt consolidation, Tafe
courses. Ghostery would let me turn it off, but it's ordinary text, not
graphics, and
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote:
There are other words you could use to describe someone who wants
everything for free and won't pay (or expect others to pay) for what they
use.
I'll gladly put up with the ads rather than pay, say, $20 a month
The Targeted Advertising under discussion is much more than just Adsense.
Adsense is part of it but ‘old hat’ in terms of the links between Google,
Facebook, Youtube, and the advertising networks that cause ads to keep
reappearing if you every searched for something or went to a website
+1 to AWS Route 53. Gives us everything we need, and very cheap.
Thanks, this is now looking quite attractive, as I'm running an AWS server
and I just noticed I get Route 53 as part of the account -- Greg
Has this any chance of attracting enough people to survive?
*Encrypted social network vies for disgruntled WhatsApp, Facebook users
Adsense is Google's product for the phenomena. On this page in gmail, I
see ads for Social Media Metrics, Restaurants in Melbourne (one of you
guys) Low home rate loans, painter quotes, Debt consolidation, Tafe courses.
In Facebrick I keep seeing pulsating bloated cartoon tummies on the top
Slightly different topic but just remembered something interesting. We
offer app for our product on all major phone environments for free (we
provide a meta-search engine and get paid for customers sent downstream).
People complained alot less and were actually much more likely to purchase
as
Must be. I've never seen that ad. Bwahahhahaha
;)
On 02/12/2013 12:39 pm, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Adsense is Google's product for the phenomena. On this page in gmail, I
see ads for Social Media Metrics, Restaurants in Melbourne (one of you
guys) Low home rate loans, painter quotes,
Ironically, when I go there I get a huge popup Ad in the middle of the
screen that I have to dismiss.
Greg, maybe that's ARN (IDG Communications) , if you're referring to what
happens when you follow my link.
As to what is actually at Syme, I have no idea. Did you try to connect to
the site?
I followed the link in the ARN article https://getsyme.com/ , and
interestingly it's available only if you're using a Chrome browser!
Will you release Syme on other platforms?
Syme will soon be available on Firefox and Safari in addition to Chrome. We
will look into building mobile and
I'm glad the subject of 1984 finally came up in the context of
advertising. When I read Orwell's book in early high school it had a deep
and lasting influence over me. Even since I have been very sensitive to
propaganda, double-speak, weasel words and varieties of fallacious argument
techniques;
Possibly. This KS project attracted over 200k just to clean up and open
the Lavabit email system (encrypted, including the metadata so beloved of
the NSA.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com
Probably not. Any more than the spam mail that advertises a well-known
enhancement.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Adsense is Google's product for the phenomena. On this page in gmail, I
see ads for Social Media Metrics, Restaurants in Melbourne (one of you
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
I'm glad the subject of 1984 finally came up in the context of
advertising. When I read Orwell's book in early high school it had a deep
and lasting influence over me.
The experience of 'reading' books in school scarred me. I'd
Has anyone read 'the circle' yet by David Eggers...seems relevant.
Amazon suggested it to me ;-)
On Dec 2, 2013 3:32 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
I'm glad the subject of 1984 finally came up in the context of
advertising. When I read Orwell's book in early high school it had a deep
and
+1 for reading list. It does look rather like a certain company with 2
circles in its name.
Amazon's been suggesting scrum books of late to me, before that it was
hacking techniques. (move along, nothing to see here)
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote:
A side note... Never sharebypur Amazon account with your wife. I eventually
had to rename my account, change the email address to my wife's and make
myself a new one. The romance novel recommendations were unbearable. Lol
Sure you can tell it not to use certain books for suggestions but I
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