College isn't tough enough that they now want to set up an environment where the kids will spend 50 classroom minutes sending IM's.....
Re:They do monitor your buying habits.
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iTunes is Malware?
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The entire world monitors your buying habits. Drive through a lower income area of your home town and tell me if you see a Bloomingdales or a Nordstrom? You see a Wal-Mart, Dollar General, and pager stores. How do you think they determined which businesses to put in which neighborhoods? How do you think the stores know to put certain items on sale in the grocery stores? It's called MARKETING. You try to induce people into buying new products so you sell more items. If Pepsi is outselling Coke in a given neighborhood, Coke drinkers should flock there because I promise you Coke will be on sale everywhere in that area. And how do you think they know that Pepsi outsells Coke? Scanners. Should I be concerned that marketing companies know I drink Diet Pepsi and not Diet Coke?
You all need to lighten up about "privacy". If iTunes finds out you like The Beastie Boys, the worst thing that will happen is that people will mock you for your awful taste in music.
"They aren't tracking anything but commercial data, and I would rather see ads for something I may be interested in rather than online dating services, casinos, and viagra."
Well, maybe teh viagara. I mean, I AM in my 50s.....
So they direct advertising likely to be of interest to you based on what you are currently playing. So what? You are going to see SOME kind of advertising. Why shouldn't it appeal to you? I get more bummed when I watch a football game and get the "All-Tel stat update" or the "AT&T First down line". People are WAY too concerned with "privacy" especially when it's usually the same people who brag to everybody in their 5th period study hall about how much they have downloaded.
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College isn't tough enough that they now want to set up an environment where the kids will spend 50 classroom minutes sending IM's.....
The entire world monitors your buying habits. Drive through a lower income area of your home town and tell me if you see a Bloomingdales or a Nordstrom? You see a Wal-Mart, Dollar General, and pager stores. How do you think they determined which businesses to put in which neighborhoods? How do you think the stores know to put certain items on sale in the grocery stores? It's called MARKETING. You try to induce people into buying new products so you sell more items. If Pepsi is outselling Coke in a given neighborhood, Coke drinkers should flock there because I promise you Coke will be on sale everywhere in that area. And how do you think they know that Pepsi outsells Coke? Scanners. Should I be concerned that marketing companies know I drink Diet Pepsi and not Diet Coke? You all need to lighten up about "privacy". If iTunes finds out you like The Beastie Boys, the worst thing that will happen is that people will mock you for your awful taste in music.
"They aren't tracking anything but commercial data, and I would rather see ads for something I may be interested in rather than online dating services, casinos, and viagra." Well, maybe teh viagara. I mean, I AM in my 50s.....
So they direct advertising likely to be of interest to you based on what you are currently playing. So what? You are going to see SOME kind of advertising. Why shouldn't it appeal to you? I get more bummed when I watch a football game and get the "All-Tel stat update" or the "AT&T First down line". People are WAY too concerned with "privacy" especially when it's usually the same people who brag to everybody in their 5th period study hall about how much they have downloaded.
Hey, I'm an old man with no life and no friends, and any chance I get to see Charlize Theron run around semi-naked for 2 hours is a good thing to me!