> From: Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >All advertising is a form of propaganda. But before now their was no > >feedback mechanism. The ability to have a feedback loop greatly improves > >the propagandist's (advertisers) ability to direct people to their > >view/product/brand. > > The solution seems simple enough... don't get cable. :-) I don't have it > myself -- probably saves me hours a week that I'd otherwise spend watching > reruns of Gilligan's Island or something. Cartoons. > IMO, the real question is... what is your ISP tracking? Is Prodigy.net > tracking your web use? Did your visit to busty_babes_&_lusty_lasses.com > last night at 4 in the morning get added to your user profile? > (Or perhaps that gayspermbank.com one that has a brin site on it?) >From me? Nothing, because I block cookies, favicons, filter web-bugs, filter advertising, have turned off Java / active scripting, remove 'referrer', and my IP address is different every time I connect. > And what are they going to do with this oh-so-precious information? (If we > get a vote, I want them to send me free samples of the stuff I'm surfing > around looking at.) Java can do some very invasive things like this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24902.html If they are able to tie a number (cookie) to your email, then they can track pretty much wherever you go on the internet. They might even be able to do a reverse email-lookup and come up with your name.... > <cue creepy X-files theme music>
