I have no basis to judge your claim about non-US advertising law, but I don't see how it's relevant given we are talking about US plans. Or has my ethnocentrism gotten the best of me and somehow Verizon is marketing unlimited data plans in Europe?

> which means they must have looked at the photos to determine if they were attractive or not

That is quite an assumption. I can think of a ton of ways they could have an attractiveness measure without themselves digging into people's personal profiles. In fact, I did 5 seconds of googling and found this, which clearly suggests that they are asking other members to rate attractiveness of profile pictures: http://blog.okcupid.com/index....

> I know what people will say, they uploaded their photos to a web site and have no expectation of privacy.

They certainly don't have an expectation of privacy from their photo being seen by other users of the site. That's why they uploaded it! So what's the beef?

I think you mean de-identified data, not necessarily aggregated data. But I understand your point. I am not sure that the outrage of the interwebs turns on that, though, as there are plenty of examples of data collection that cannot be tied to a real-life identity that gets their panties in a wad.

product names are not claims, so they cannot be false. if you don't understand at this point, you're either a complete moron or just goading me to continue responding

very few successful businesses are doing what they were originally founded to do. business is all about experimentation. you tweak and reset and change and reset again until you see the numbers going in the right direction at the desired speed. unsuccessful businesses usually do the same thing, too; they just don't ever find a combination that works.

see also: "Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model" http://www.amazon.com/Getting-...

"To succeed, you must change the plan in real time as the inevitable challenges arise. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who stick slavishly to their Plan A stand a greater chance of failing-and that many successful businesses barely resemble their founders' original idea. ... Testing those assumptions and unearthing why the plan might not work."

Do academic demographers get "informed consent" before processing census data? What about crime statistics? Network security incidents?

Showing a page with and without images and then processing access_log is not the same as monitoring someone's eating habits and stress levels for a week. Just because you call something "an experiment" (a) doesn't mean it is one, and (b) doesn't mean it's the same as all other "experiments".

i don't agree with him. he just ended up making my point for me.

just because you ramble something doesn't make it so. i am free to call my fitness plan "The Immortal Plan". a name is not a claim, therefore there is no false advertising.

um, i think you made my point. the clowns here are whining that there are limits in "unlimited" plans. my point is: of course that is true, you friggin nitwits. same with the autobahn. just because there are no imposed speed limits does not mean there are no limits to how fast you can go.

> Either that, or you are an idiot.

not realizing you're making my point perhaps makes you a better fit for that category

names of plans do not constitute a contract

mine bitcoin?

i stopped restating my position many replies ago when i moved on to insulting you

no, "unlimited" means there is no limit. your assertion that it somehow means only that there is no company-imposed limit is just something you're making up based on context and assumption.

just calling a plan "unlimited" is not fraudulent.

the topic at hand is throttling, right? nobody is turning off service after x gigs are downloaded, right? so...