privacy policy paranoia

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  • ukit0

    Nobody cares about you, except as an anonymous consumer to advertise to.

    I worked for awhile at a fairly large ad network and you'd be surprised how much tracking and data profiling of users does go on - all anonymously of course. There are probably a couple dozen ad networks tracking you as we speak - mainly through Flash cookies that are hidden on your hard drive.

    But at the end of the day what does it all add up to? Not a whole lot to get scared about, unless email spam and popups scare you.

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    • < in other words, thismonospaced
    • identity thieves care, credit thieves care about your info.eficks
    • "it wont happen to me"eficks
    • of course OTHER INDIVIDUALS might care, but that's a completely different topic, eficksmonospaced
    • you said 'nobody' plus i do believe its a privacy concern, as the subject of the thread suggests.eficks
    • he said :peficks
    • Different issue though
      The kind of info ad networks collect is not going to allow people to steal your identity or CC      ukit
    • credit card infoukit
    • i'm sorry, did you read the OP?eficks
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