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by Golygydd Max on Friday July 25, @11:30AM (#24335347)
Attached to: Hacked Oyster Card System Crashes Again
Do you think they used Perl?
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03, @01:03PM (#24044717)
Attached to: AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet

Ok. It's run by Jews in a secret conspiracy to take over the World using sharks with frickin' lasers and gorgeous fembots with a penchant for evil.

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  Your Rights Online: Users Know Advertisers Watch Them, and Hate It 2008-04-02 00:50

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 02, @12:50AM
from the someone-to-watch-over-me dept.
Chris Blanc tips an Ars writeup on a survey of consumer attitudes toward targeted advertising. The results of the survey, conducted for TRUSTe, confirm that advertisers are in a tough spot. "[The survey company] randomly selected 1,015 nationally representative adults... Although only 40 percent of the group was familiar with the term 'behavioral targeting,' most users were well aware of the practice. 57 percent reported that they weren't comfortable their activities [were being] tracked for advertising purposes, even if the information couldn't be tied to their names or real-life identities. Simultaneously, 72 percent of those surveyed said that they find online advertising annoying when the ads are not relevant to their needs..."
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 [+] story, yro, privacy, money, aprilfools, adblock, badheadline

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