Slashdot Mirror
DoubleClick On The Blocks?
A reader writes: "Many sources report that DoubleClick - the world's leading supplier of cookies - may be up for sale. " There's also an AP report out as well. The online advertising market has been hard lately - but there's also been a widespread perception that DoubleClick has been resting on their laurels.
I'm not only one of the most hated businesses on the web, I'm also rich, and going to become a hell of a lot richer! Woo!
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: doubleclick.net
Address: 127.0.0.1
Punch The Monkey If You Want To Buy Doubleclick!
Can't wait for Microsoft to buy out DoubleClick and TAKE OVER THE WORLD! :P
"DoubleClick has been resting on their laurels"
If by "resting on their laurels" you mean "Need to be taken out back of the Interweb and beaten to within an inch of their lives. Twice." then by all means: rest away.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
cant see many people shedding tears over this
If they really are the leading supplier of cookies, I think this is a golden opportunity for Girl Scouts of America to buy them out. Imagine the possibilities for increased profits!
I wish I could download a Samoa or two now...
Many sources report that DoubleClick - the world's leading supplier of cookies
DoubleClick is a terrible name for a cookie company. No wonder they are up for sale. They should have called it DoubleCrunch or DoubleCookie or something.
Do they have chocolate chip cookies?
Vivin Suresh Paliath
http://vivin.net
I like
Doubleclick was the very first host I mapped to 127.0.0.1 in my host file when web ads started to appear.
But even then, think about it: each time you hit a page with a link to some doubleclick url, you end up hitting port 80 of your own machine. That's right, even with doubleclick.com disabled, Doubleclick, Inc. manages to make you DoS yourself!
Talk about an evil company...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
An anonymous investor, identified only as "C.M." was said to have put in a bid for $30 billion dollars to buy out DoubleClick today. Experts believe C.M. may have a personal agenda for buying DoubleClick, but could not speculate as to his reasons.
The anonymous investor was quoted as saying "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."
What if some unscrupulous entity were to purchase Doubleclick?
What would happen to the millions of peoples' personal data that Doubleclick owns?
Who could guarantee that it would remain secure, and not fall into the wrong hands?
Oh, wait...
Though, to be frank, I would consider Peace in the middle east to be a better sign of the Apocolypse.
Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you in your sleep.
wouldn't that be better to sell the info to spamers? Just a thought.
Anyone want to chip in, buy them out and shut them down, so we can browse the web in peace?
Hmmmm.... Could we sue them if the cookies get stale? Is that a public health risk? BTW, if they are the largest supplier of cookies, why don't I see them in Safeway?
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Which is why the smarter ones amongst us mapped it (and numerous others) to 0.0.0.0 instead. I've yet to find a single IP stack where that isn't the network equivalent of /dev/null.
:-)
No, that's my IP address, you insensitive clod!
Ahem.
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Oh well, did I forget to explain about how Cookie Buddy would phone home now and then? To check for .. updates .. yeah, that's it!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.