Just a thought, but doublclick.net _does_ have an opt-out cookie you
can send to help keep information from being correlated to your
company. Combined with a single caching proxy server (ie squid) (hey,
you want to reduce the amount you transfer from the internet anyway),
it provides a certain degree of anonymity.
Having your web cache send
id=OPT_OUT
as part of the http cookie vars is left as an exercise for the reader
(or SA)
The idea of a sort of ORBS is interesting (and may have merit). If,
for instance, ads.doubleclick.net.relays.worbs.net returns a valid ip
(loopback), then have your proxy server transparently handle traffic
to that site. However, and automated ORBS would be fairly difficult to
implement, as verification of information relaying is not as easy as
it is for open relays of email.
jeff
> Just curious if there is anyone out there that can add/delete from the
> above list. I'm also wondering _why_ they do it. Do this sites receive
> some form of financial return for submitting this info? Why don't they
> state what they are doing in their privacy statement?
>
> I'm also wondering if people feel an ORBS kind of setup is in order.
> It's really starting to trouble me just how much information is getting
> reported back to a single agency under the guise of "target
> advertising". If the government was doing this people would be freaked.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> All input appreciated,
> Chris
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