Your Privacy

what makes the internet different from a store:

IRL you can buy a newspaper, go to the cinema etc without identifying yourself. We take this for granted and presumably we want it to be that way.
-If- you have to identify yourself IRL it is still you who will take out the drivers licence or passport.

On the net, they'll have their hands in your pockets going through your personall stuff without you even knowing it. Only later you find out that some guys know quite a bit about you though you never told 'm anything.

that's the difference

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test your p.c's vulnerability.....



ok i think that's about it for my security feature's ...t.d is out

If you don't want these advertising mofos peeping into your computer, run a firewall or some sort of proxy. Though I really disagree with letting this information being collected without the target's knowledge is bad, it's simple enough to install a firewall and run.

I think it all depends on how much information they are taking from you. Sure it's wrong that they're taking any information at all but, it's no more than someone could know by looking your name up in the phone book. As for knowing which sites you visit, who cares? The minute you bought your internet package you signed away you're privacy on the computer. If you go to goatporn.com, and an advertiser knows about it, are they adding you to a list to give to Santa so you don't get any presents? What the fuck are you worried about? The main reason the FTC let this go, is because they're not doing anything bad with it. According to the law, anything shared on the internet is fair game to anyone. This includes your 'Temporary Internet Files' if you run windows. This is where your cookies and history information is kept (YES, it IS available to the internet). If you're that anal about this, sue Microsoft for allowing it to happen. The advertising companies arent doing anything wrong. I remember not too long agoa company attempted to sue a hacker (I'll try and find the news post) but the defense reiterated the fact that the company had shared things on the internet, so it was fair game. They won the case because (and I quote) "It was the company's fault for not securing it correctly". Privacy on the internet? Please...

Shut up, Ominous.

Ghey.

what kind of BS is this?

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check out this program. It removes any spyware on your computer.also on the homepage of this site they talk about how netscapes 's smart download gather's information on you.So anyone running netscape would be wise to run this program.I installed it and it found 24!! program's on my p.c. geeez.bunch of crooks if you ask me..what an invasion of privacy..

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Whenever you buy anything online
you have to give a legit name/address/cc #
deals between e-retailers and ad companies to share their information could be going on with none of us knowing about it.

all they have to do is match a cookie up with personal info and bang, they've got you.

Right now it's pretty crude and they can only get
detailed info on people with static ip's but as fancy browser 'features' are added
they will find more ways to nail down people browsing 'anonymously'.

Whenever people dont like something, they try to make a law against it. Im tired of that kind of attitude. Power to the people! The people will overcome the man!

Check this program out:
http://www.adsubtract.com
It runs in the background (bah) but it blocks all advertisements and cookies. Ive been running it for about 2 days, and it seems to work pretty well. I just get blank spaces where the ads were. Pages seem to load faster now too.

On the other side of the debate, if we legislate or block the ads, a lot of websites who rely on advertising money are screwed. Oh well!

Heh, check it:
http://csnation.counter-strike.net/features/countercrap/flash/roof.html

That ad is priceless.. A copy of it
is on oldmanmurray.com in the carmack
talking head feature.

I sometimes use junkbuster, but I
usually can suffer through UGO ads on
the shack--

" ...Never ever do drugs' they'll frag you faster than a room full of shambler's ..."
"...in real life drugs could be game over for you."

--John Romero, Diakatana designer, UGO anti-drug spokesman

Hmm I'm confused over here (nothing to do with that huge bong next to my desk), how can companies get info about you, if you don't fill the right stuff in. I mean wherever I go I just fill in some fake info and thats it. If it requires for them to have my email, I just create a hotmail account and thats it. I just don't see how they can actually steal info from me, ah yeah maybe they can track what I download but I don't care about that cos they will only send the spam etc to my fake hotmail account. Am I missing something here or what.

Damn right I want government regulation.

I also want government taxes on internet sales of physical merchandise (i.e. not on IP traffic, but on stuff sold via the internet). Why should internet retailers be exempt from taxes as compared to the local Wal-Mart?

Here's a great idea [don't jump on my ass, I couldn't sleep]: How about the companies "regulate" themselves, but if I catch any company stealing my information [which is what they're doing], it's a crime. That's right, a crime. It's theft of personal property.

I'm surfing in Lynx--No ads or
cookies for me!

Bwahaha!

How bout we get rid of advertising?

If i were to take a stand point from manipulative theory, then i spose it would make little difference who made the regulations. Still, I'd go with the government on this one because at least they have to pretend to exercise some control over the coporations. As long as government intervention didnt go any further, then its the best of two somewhat crap choices.

DAMN YOU TO HELLLLLLLLLLLL!

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