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Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar.
An anonymous reader writes "Jesse Ruderman brings the worst feature of Opera, Advertisements, to Firefox with his extension Adbar. According to the page, 'adbar displays Google ads related to pages you view. Because the ads are relevant, they are occasionally useful. When adbar isn't displaying ads from Google, it displays Firefox-related things such as silly Firefox slogans, ads for other Mozilla software, and requests for donations to the Mozilla Foundation.'"
Google is very strict about where they allow their ads to be shown. For example, Google will not feed ads to sites that express extreme political views, or deal with taboo topics such as internet gambling.
So, I'm wondering if they approved this project. If they haven't, then Google will be pulling the plug very shortly...
But you're not helping anyone other than the advertisers. The adbar is run in test mode: the developer doesn't make a dime, and google doesn't make a dime.
So, unless you're referring to the moral high road of all advertisers who display web ad content, which I find hard to believe, you're just another schmuck who hasn't read the damn article
There are two ways advertisers can "violate your privacy".
* They can send you unwanted advertisements (spam e-mail, junk faxes, telemarketing, adware). With spam and ads from adware, it is often difficult to tell where the ad came from and how to stop receiving ads from that source.
* They can select which ads to show you based on information you consider private, such as demographic information or the contents of e-mails you receive.
I don't mind the second, as long as I don't see ads for porn while someone is looking over my shoulder. Google was wise to make Gmail select ads based only on the current message.
The shareholder is always right.
who modded this as funny? he did buy the uid on ebay A very little amount of research will also reveal the uid of the user who bought it.