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Elbonia | It's a totally different issue The evil of schemes like Nebu-ad, Phorm et al. is that all the internet user's traffic is intercepted and analyzed, and there's not enough competition in ISPs to enable citizens to opt out of the wiretapping by going to another ISP. In the case of Google, anyone can opt out of the advertising scheme by blocking Google cookies and ad servers, without losing internet access.
For example, I put Google's cookies on my "deny" list (an ordinary browser feature, doesn't even require an extension), and on Google's new "Ad preferences" page it says: quote:
Cookies are disabled
Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser. How do I enable cookies?
If the relatively trivial matter of webservers tracking people is mixed up with the far more ominous prospect of ISPs data-mining the users, it tends to trivialize the latter and ease the political pressure that may save internet users from the worse form of spying. |
