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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.

17 of 382 comments (clear)

  1. Hey by iamdrscience · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    THIRD POST!

  2. wooohoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first.

    1. Re:wooohoo by sbrown123 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You were not first. You lose. How about writing something that relates to topics in the future.

    2. Re:wooohoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Bah, I've got nothing to say though. Nothing at all. Bugger.

  3. my first post cares. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp?

    1. Re:my first post cares. by sbrown123 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Several other idiots posted "first post" before you. Spend some time and write postings to the topic. There is no prize for first geek across the posting line.

    2. Re:my first post cares. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      F I R S T P O S T !

      I dedicate this first post to people who have been trolled!

      Your friendly neighbourhood AC

  4. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

  5. Re:Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pap?

  6. Re:Score -1 (Obvious) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I first read the headline as Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Piracy and was thinking to myself "Whoo-hoo!".

  7. Re:Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, son?

  8. The (Nopefully) Great Blackout by Dan+Crash · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

    --
    He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
  9. Better class of loser. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everyone I know opted out. Stop ur bitchin' and git in the kitchen and bake me some pie!

  10. Re:slashdotsucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually.. A number of folks block doubleclick and never see the big dumb ads. Just because *YOU* did nothing..

  11. Re:Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Didn't you mean "Yes, Boy?"

  12. OT, but /. is officially doomed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just saw a M$ Visual Studio .Net ad at the top. It may have been just some random ad, not specifically targeted here, but if so...

  13. I think Yahoo did the right thing and...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How long does it take a palestinian islamic whore to make a bomb?

    9 months