Re:Indeed, this is the free market at work. (Score 1)

Allow me to retort. Firstly, they are still public, the deal hasn't closed yet (or at least I haven't see the SEC filing indicating the shareholder vote. Secondly, you are ignoring the fact that Doubleclick doesn't operate the ads. The advertising agencies and marketers do. I loathe popups like anyone, but lest we not forget that web sites, including myself, could have a policy to ban popups. Lastly, and I have my Doubleclick legal contract in front of me, they do not own any data! I do! If I choose to use another ad server, guess what. All that data is mine, as governed by my privacy policy, not Doubleclick. You are basically jumping to your own conclusion about that privacy statement. It is explicit that they cannot capture and contrast any data that occurs on my website with another website. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not defending them per se. I'm defending the concept that most people are blaming the mail man for delivering junk mail when it's the companies who buy your data and market to you that's to blame.