Groups Call For Investigation of MS Ad Service 64
narramissic writes, "The Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group have filed a complaint with the FTC, asking for an investigation into Microsoft's use of customer data collection in its adCenter Web advertising service. The groups claim that 'Microsoft has embarked on a wide-ranging data collection and targeting scheme that is deceptive and unfair to millions of users.' Microsoft, for its part, says the groups 'have got it all wrong.'"
Re:Well... (Score:1, Insightful)
Just like Slashdot.
Re:Well... (Score:3, Insightful)
I remember the time when Slashdot was Taco's project. He opened the stats to this place, and lo and behold it represented standard traffic patterns. The supposed "linux lovers" were really Windows haters who didn't know how to make Linux usable. If anything, when slashdot was bought, those traffic patterns were removed, so that we cant see that embarrassment.
Aside from that loud minority, most people here are sane, science-loving people. Computers and their application is just a part of it.
Just because it's MS...? (Score:3, Insightful)
Honestly, anybody who looks at those targeted ads must realize that information is being harvested to create them. You know what? Good for them! I'd MUCH rather have a service that finds ads of companies I'm interested in than one which either:
1) Slaps up random ads to dating sites, unrelated services also provided by the host company who's service I'm using, etc.
2) Charges me even slightly to offset costs of data storage, server maintenance, R&D, bandwidth, etc.