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| Authored by: lnuss on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 08:05 AM EDT |
I'd have to agree with you -- I don't want that personalization, either. It's a
privacy invasion.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
Maybe? When or if the UN gets control of the web, you will
then see bribery that will control the direction (and, other
countries will then have the power to put their own controls
in place without opposition from the "people" of the world).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 09:46 AM EDT |
Funny how the monied interests have taken over the web.
After an initial hesitation on the whole Internet phenomenon to the brief time
when a company showed hip by having a www.something leading to their on-line
company brochure, there has been a scramble by the corporate body to monetize
the web-thing.
It is increasingly seen as a marketplace where information is the commodity.
The problem with this is that once the stall-holders are in place, they want ALL
the land to themselves and will go to any length to make it so.
It is theft of public property (the infrastructure) that the public is powerless
to resist, simply because their representatives have long since fallen in love
with all that money can buy.
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| Authored by: Wol on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 12:22 PM EDT |
And if the search engines give you the news they think you want to see, how do
you find the news you really want?
Mind you, sometimes I wish that DID work. All too often when I search on a
product, I've got it and want support. So why do search engines always tell me
where to buy it when I've already got it !?!?!?
Cheers,
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| Authored by: tknarr on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 12:50 PM EDT |
I think it's a different definition of "personalization". When I run a Web
search, for instance, I'd prefer it if any ads served up alongside the search
results pertain to what I was searching for. If I'm reading a particular
story on a Web site, the ads I find most useful (and that I'm most likely to
look at) are ones that pertain to the material in the story. But that kind of
personalization doesn't depend on knowing anything about me, only about what I'm
doing at that moment (which the Web site knows already).
What the
advertisers want, OTOH, is to know so much about me personally that they can
ignore what I'm doing at the moment and target me with the ads most likely to
convince me to buy what their customers are selling. Which is counter-productive
actually, because most of the time I'm not interested in being actively marketed
to and the constant pestering just annoys me. Think of it like street hawkers.
If you're already looking to buy a wristwatch, you might not mind them
announcing what kinds they've got for sale. But if you're on your way to a
dentist's appointment, or even if you're out shopping but it's for flowers for
your girlfriend, then even if you happen to badly need a new wristwatch you're
not interested in that right now and a constant stream of guys snagging
your arm going "Hey, want to buy a cheap genuine Rolex?" is going to do nothing
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