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Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done?
bsk_cw (1202181) writes "The W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group has been trying to come up with a way to make targeted ads acceptable to users and useful to advertisers — and so far, hasn't gotten very far. Computerworld's Robert Mitchell has interviewed people on all sides of the issue — consumer privacy advocates, vendors of ad-blocking tools, advertisers and website publishers — to try to unravel the issues and see if any solution is possible at all."
Why do advertisers give themselves the right to pollute people's memory long-term with their shit?
With the same right you reserve for you the right to pollute people's memory long-term with your opinion. Advertisement is just the spread of an opinion, that it might be sensible/enjoyable/cool to buy a certain product or brand. You might disagree with the opinion (rightfully so), but in general, the advertiser has the right to spread it, and if some media agree to carry his opinion (even if they are paid to), it's their right.
Yes, you don't have the means or the money to spread your opinion as far and wide as an advertiser with his advertising budget, but on the other hand, the way the advertiser is allowed to spread his opinion is strongly regulated, differently to yours.
Today, more and more websites are designed in a such a way that disabling Javascript breaks them completely -- you literally get nothing but a blank page.
IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to plain html/css with ideally, minimum loss of functionality
IMHO these websites are examples of bad design . Good design should fall back to a fixed width of 120 characters and height of 80 characters of plain text with ideally, minimum loss of functionality
Morons spout off stupid garbage like this because they were told once 20 years ago that these types of statements are absolutes, and then forget that time keeps moving forward and so do people's expectations.
Dynamic interactions with scripting languages are here right now and in use almost everywhere except old angelfire/geocities sites with the nice space backgrounds. You might find some hipster trying to make a point by making their site completely in html/css, but that is just a pathetic attempt at holding back innovation and progress.