NebuAd Not Too Chatty With Press These Days After their entire business model got up and walked away.... Tipped by Cabal 
Apparently a Congressional investigation into buying user browsing data from ISPs without a functional user opt-out process is bad for business. The Associated Press pens a short exploration (postmortem?) of behavioral advertising firm NebuAD, who saw all of their ISP partners run to the hills when the investigation began. Not too surprisingly, NebuAD doesn't appear to be very chatty these days with the media, so it's not clear if they actually have any customers left. The company is developing a new opt-out system that actually works, but under prolonged inquiry by politicians eager to see such services be opt-in, it's not clear they'll survive long enough to implement it.
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 major marcoRes Firma Mitescere NescitPremium join:2003-02-13 Stepford, CA 2 edits | Gone For Now But Not Dead Yet Don't worry, NebuAD will be back once it pays off finances the re-election campaign of the appropriate Congre$$ional puppet(s) to add an obscure national security clause buried in a five thousand page report on subject matter that has zip to do with broadband and whose sole purpose is to allow its business model. I further expect NebuAD to return with a fuzzy new name, as well...something along the lines of LuvUAD...yunno, because selling private data to the highest bidder without disclosing it is a form of love for the subscriber. | |
|  |  1 edit | Re: Gone For Now But Not Dead Yet Of course we will see them again. Someone has to be funding them. I actually believe it is still going on but people have shut up about it.
Cable companies and telco's don't give in this easy when there is a buck to be made. They freely give customers information out at the drop of a hat. Why should this be a problem for them? -- "There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots" | |
|  |  |  | | Re: Gone For Now But Not Dead Yet and telco's don't? | |
|  |  |  |  | | Re: Gone For Now But Not Dead Yet Actually. You are correct. I should have included them. -- "There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots" | |
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 |  |  |  Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept join:2004-06-26 kudos:1 | The Omnibus to hell - | |
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 |  |  dks7 join:2004-05-31 Omak, WA | Re: Here's a list of ISPs who tried NebuAd I hope they fold, their a garbage parasitic business. | |
|  |  |  knightmbEverybody Lies join:2003-12-01 Franklin, TN | Re: Here's a list of ISPs who tried NebuAd said by dks7:I hope they fold, their a garbage parasitic business. See signature below  -- Fight NebuAD and the like: Click Here to pollute their data | |
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