  swhx7Premium
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Elbonia | Half baked - Restraint of targeting, or at least disclosing what's going on: good.
- Trying to control who sees what: This will run into the same problem as the attempts to keep kids out of "adult" sites, which have repeatedly been struck down as unconstitutional. How would age be veified? How to shelter children while maintaining freedom of communication for adults?
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 |  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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kudos:4 | Re: Half baked The FTC is on solid legal ground when making sure what is advertised is accurate. But when they get in to privacy issues they just don't have the legal mandate to do very much. They can talk about it, but without new laws from Congress, they can't do much more than that. | |
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| | | | Re: Half baked think thats why i like FF a little more & more then IE, at least you can "DENY" the cookies,from a site. | |
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| | | Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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kudos:4 | Re: Half baked said by whocares0:think thats why i like FF a little more & more then IE, at least you can "DENY" the cookies,from a site. You can control cookies from IE just as easily.
But ad blocking isn't as easy as FF.
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Valencia, CA | Re: Half baked Yup... 99% of your traffic's tracking is through cookies.
Older sites did 'basic' tracking through log files only, but that's only good for basic hit counts.
'True' tracking through cookies within a site (i.e. logins captured through cookies) are reasonable. Its the outside vendors that track across domains/sites that are the issue.
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join:2002-04-12 | said by whocares0:think thats why i like FF a little more & more then IE, at least you can "DENY" the cookies,from a site. What are you talking about. Cookie handling in IE6 & 7 is vastly superior to Firefox.
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| said by Romney2012:The FTC is on solid legal ground when making sure what is advertised is accurate. But when they get in to privacy issues they just don't have the legal mandate to do very much. They can talk about it, but without new laws from Congress, they can't do much more than that. How do they plan on enforcing laws against advertising companies in different countries? I mean, it's all swell and dandy to propose reigning in the "wild wild west" of today's state of online advertising...I just don't see how one country will have any jurisdiction to play "internet police" over international networks. | |
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USA | Re: Half baked Exactly. Someone was paying attention. The internet is bigger than US (intentional). Please tell me they have smarter people at the FTC. | |
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| | | said by swhx7:- How to shelter children while maintaining freedom of communication for adults?
getting off the couch and actually RAISING your children would be a start.
A tiny bit of supervision just seems to be too much to ask of the parents of America. No, it's so much easier to just trample the freedom of speech. Heck, you can do it from your couch! | |
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| | | | Re: Half baked Advertisers have way too much info on net users. I think that we should go back and take another look at using top-level domain to curb such privacy intrusion. Personally I have set my internal firewall to block many advertising site. but the list is large and near impossible to maintain. maybe we should have tools like the .sex .xxx and maybe even a .ads or something. Its would be soo easy to shield my kids from unwanted or unsolicited ads and sites if i could simply block an entire top-level domain. I don't think the US government should censor us but i do think and quite frankly expect the government to devise tools to allow the people to govern/censor themselves at their choosing. | |
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kudos:1 | Things are fine There is nothing wrong with gmail.So you get a small advert on the side.I never really see it anyway.This is just the US trying to rule the world.(Not really but you should get the drift of it) | |
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 ScreeIn the pipe 5 by 5
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| Re: huh? said by Scree:What's an "ad?" [subliminal: AdBlockPlus] I think I heard of "ads," [subliminal: AdBlockPlus] but I can't seem to recall. [subliminal: AdBlockPlus] They are what use to be in those blank areas that look like something should be in them, or what use to be under the header "ADVERTISEMENT" on some sites but just seem to be empty.  | |
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kudos:2 | You're all missing the real point This is how this will play out. He makes a big stink to draw attention to himself, they'll collect money to buy him off, and this will fade away into nothingness. This is how they play the game. | |
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| | | Re: You're all missing the real point that maybe true but now there are a few more people/readers, including myself, thinking about the consequences of such an enormous privacy invasion. That in its self may propel a sluggish reaction that can induce good change. | |
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| | Jodokast96Stupid people really piss me off.Premium
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kudos:2 | Re: You're all missing the real point LOL, yeah, ok. All one needs to do is look at any of the decisions made recently in Washington. Privacy and what's actually good for the consumer has lost out every time. | |
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