Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Privacy

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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The (Nopefully) Great Blackout

[Dan Crash]

I didn't do the blackout thing because I hated the Big Ads. I did it to see if a web community could engage in a dialogue with its providers about how to run that community. Slashdot seems to be falling apart at the seams some days, and I thought perhaps by starting a dialogue, we could change that. The dream of a community telling marketers how it should be marketed to seemed worth the sacrificing comments for a week.

But it didn't work. Which sucked. Maybe when Slashdot hits harder times, we'll try again. Something different next time. Without parentheses in it.