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Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Privacy

Posted by chrisd on from the sadly-expected-result dept.

sulli writes "Remember how everyone got all up in arms about Yahoo's plans to spam and coldcall all of its members? Well, even if slashdot readers were pissed and angrily deleted their accounts, the vast majority of users did nothing. (New York Times, blah blah) So much for the big popular revolt, I guess. Market away, Yahoo!" Sigh.

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  1. It seems that everyone except those here . . . by vegetablespork · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . on /. wasn't able to find another service provider that would give them free email, free webspace, and customized content for free and that would also promise to hold any information about them sacrosanct. Imagine that.

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  2. slashdotsucks by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember how everyone got all up in arms about Slashdot's plans to implement Big Fucking Ads? Well, even if slashdot readers were pissed and angrily boycotted slashdot for a week, the vast majority of users did nothing. So much for the big popular revolt, I guess. Market away, Slashdot! Sigh.

  3. Re:Score -1 (Obvious) by tenman · · Score: 3, Funny

    OH!!! ME!!! ME ME ME!!!

    I want to be the first to get a chance to buy car insurance from Yahoo's highest advertising bidder.

  4. Re:Everything is okay... by 56ker · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fact sometimes some of the spam from Yahoo gets filtered into the Bulk Mail by their own filters! Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot!

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