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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?"
Yes it does. Look at www.aa9.net. That's even the Asian Asinine Network.
http://www.rayn.net . Funny. Stuff.
Come to think of it, here's an idea for a cool app: a P2P bookmark swap app with a ratings system like iTunes. No corporate shills, just people rating sites.
Of course, this idea will get modded down pretty darn fast once the Slashdot editors figure out what rating they'd get...
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
If you've been on the internet more than 6 months and you don't have at least 3000 porn sites *bookmarked*, you should have your net privileges taken away.
I've been on the Internet for eleven years and I don't have a single pr0n site bookmarked. Why bother when people upload gigs of it to Usenet every day.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of