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Who wants companies to be able to tailor adverts to your web habits?

I dont

this sounds like a good idea to me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7072653.stm

 

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imagine my nephew jumps on my computer...
the poor kid would be hit with porno ads all day long!

or is that a good thing!???

 

are you sure its your nephew?

 

sssh!

 

I wont tell on you if you dont tell on me

 

Great idea. Unfortunately, it has about as much chance of succeeding as Charlton Athletic have of winning the Champions League. This season.

95% of all 'nefarious' advertising on the web originates from places like Russia, the Ukraine, Thailand, Indonesia and Lithuania. Those places wouldn't give international law enforcement agencies the IP addresses of people who were planning to blow up half the rest of the world, let alone bother themselves signing up to treaties that enabled people to opt-out of internet advertising.

File that one under 'well intentioned, but not thought out' I think.

 

It may minmise some of the crap out there which is better than nothing I suppose.

 

personally I feel targeted advertising is MUCH better than untargeted advertising
I may actually buy something then

 

But if I want to buy something I'll look for it.

I don't want it shoved in my face.