Chilly Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Good God... Charter Communications, the No. 4 cable company, has started warning its cable modem subscribers that it will start tracking all of the Web sites they visit. Charter (CHTR) will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which will use subscribers' browsing history to target which ads they'll see. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/charter..._and_cashing_in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyemike Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 There goes our God-given freedom to secretly download porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Good God... http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/charter..._and_cashing_in Google tracks what we post here. The ads that show up when one invokes TBD and is not logged in, for example. The Where is Deano arrest thread had an ad link to a site that offers arrest records this morning, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 The opt out clause thing shouldn't exist. It should be an OPT IN thing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 The opt out clause thing shouldn't exist. It should be an OPT IN thing!! The little men and women in the private sector working in their little cubicles on their databases and their programming are a threat to privacy far greater than any government entity could hope to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted May 15, 2008 Author Share Posted May 15, 2008 Google tracks what we post here. The ads that show up when one invokes TBD and is not logged in, for example. The Where is Deano arrest thread had an ad link to a site that offers arrest records this morning, for example. If you call Google cache "tracking what you post", perhaps, but they have no way of determining who is who unless you specifically give that information out. In addition, this is a public forum, and as such there is no reasonable expectation of privacy of what you say, just of who you are (anonymity of person, not of content). In contrast, tracking browsing traffic at the ISP level makes it ridiculously easy for Charter to say that specific person xxx goes to sites yyy, making it trivial for the ISP to know who is looking at what (and, of course, to sell that information). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 In contrast, tracking browsing traffic at the ISP level makes it ridiculously easy for Charter to say that specific person xxx goes to sites yyy, making it trivial for the ISP to know who is looking at what (and, of course, to sell that information). Ahh...I see..an escalation of hostilities! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 The Where is Deano arrest thread had an ad link to a site that offers arrest records this morning, for example. I know what you mean. I tried to reply to a post from Moslen Golden on PPP, and I had a pop-up hit my screen with a coupon for a free supply of Massengill. Creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I know what you mean. I tried to reply to a post from Moslen Golden on PPP, and I had a pop-up hit my screen with a coupon for a free supply of Massengill. Creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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