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Amazon Search Bar Will Track Your Browsing
Limit writes "There has been a lot of discussion regarding GMail and Google's privacy policies. However, with the recent debut of Amazon's A9.com, I havn't seen any mention to the information they intend to collect. I saw this article today, "The history server stores -- on our servers -- your history of interaction with us for the purpose of bringing that back to you in a very convenient way ... If you install the toolbar, then all your Web browsing, as well as all your searching, is stored as well." Where is all the media hype about this privacy issue?"
If they see me browsing freshmeat.net, and sourceforge all the time will they send me free stuff?
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Is anyone reminded of asinine when reading A9? I think that we should officially coin the term and use it until asinine changes their name.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Anyone who signs up for a "free" service without reading the small print deserves what they get, just like with any other 'unbelievably-good' offer...
Like Slashdot. If I'd realised that I'd still own my comments then I'd have made better ones. Damn small print.
...and that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just Privacy. And this paddle game, privacy and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. My privacy, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. My privacy, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. My privacy, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. My privacy, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.
And while I'm quoting from the Jerk, my all time favorite...
I don't care about losing all the money. It's losing all the stuff.
Compliments of IMDB
I was so upset about reading that Amazon was tracking my searches that I checked all my other programs for similar privacy violations. What I found may shock and appall some of you.
It must have been that last service pack I downloaded or that damn Auto Update, but you'll never believe it. INTERNET EXPLORER TRACKS YOUR BROWSING! Not only does it track every link you click on it also saves every image or web page you view. I found a hidden cache of html, images, flash files, audio files... everything I've looked at for weeks was there!
There was even a whole folder full of thousands of cookies! Websites sometimes use them I'm told, but that damn microsoft has been stealing them from websites I browse and backing them up in a secret folder on my hard drive. I deleted them and now all my web site preferences are gone and some of the sites I use don't log me in automatically anymore. Microsoft must have detected that I deleted them and they are demonstrating their power over me.
Well that's it I've had it I'm not going to take it any more! I'm switching to Mozilla today. Take that Microsoft.
P.S. Wal-Mart is switching everything to RFID tags, but that's where I get my tinfoil from. Does anyone have a good source of 1990s era tin foil? I've been using my baked potato tin foil to kill the RFID tags, but it doesn't always stick right and the wife refuses to wear her tinfoil hat at all now. I'm not sure if she can be trusted any longer...
I'm way ahead of you.
I am currently using telnet to read and send TCP/IP packets to and from the slashdot.org servers. Sure, jpg/gif/bmp mime types were a pain to mentally picture at first, but you get used to it.
What is this "browser" you are speaking of?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Now every time I log in they are recommend that I but an "Emabrace of the Vampire" DVD
I'm using a kazoo to make "modem noises" on my telephone line, and have trained myself to read Slashdot from the analog data that comes back.
Freedom: "I won't!"
I'm still waiting for the time to come when I don't have to watch tampon commercials on my television!
It's called "a football game".
Freedom: "I won't!"
Actually, the lack of a vowel circumlocution in Hebrew can be circumvented since the "true" name of G-d is not often (almost never) used in written form (outside of the Bible). There are many other names that represent Him (like Hashem which literally means "The Name" or any of a great variety of other reference words.
Sorry, my knowledge of all this is rather abstract and theoretical.
You see, I'm actually an -th--st.
(Or I guess we're supposed to call ourselves br-ghts now.)
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
That's ok, I installed a web cam in the Amazon company bathroom. Initially I did it because my buddies were always talking about Amazon women but frankly I'm not that impressed. Oh well, to each their own. Now eBay women... w00t!
ever since I started using GMail for my al-Qaida mail, they've began to show all these ads for chemical weapons, sniper rifles, camelse.cx, cheap flights to countries without a prisoner exchange treaties with the US.....
...but at least I can hide if everything goes wrong... also offers for getting breast/penis enlargement and AFFORDABLE cosmetic surgery if it all fails!