The article is just stating the obvious. Just looking to present 1 of what will soon be many solutions to the problem probably. Nobody likes cookies, nobody likes sending personal data. There's always some critic to *everything* out there. And every advancement in technology always ticks somebody off.
I think anyone in the tech sector knows this already. It's pretty common knowledge that people surf from multiple IP addresses. How about a solution instead? How about adding MAC addresses to stats, or modem_id's (whatever the equivilent to them is a to a MAC) and have webbrowsers send that data too then stats applications can have something more unique to identify a unique customer by than an IP address.
This is yet another reason that unlimited broadband will soon disappear. Now Apple is planning to exploit DSL accounts to max out the traffic for their own benefit. I would imagine, looking at the costs of bandwidth, they'll use about $5 of bandwidth and credit the subscriber around a nickel to the itunes music store. IT's a total win for apple as they now won't have to increase infostructure and can ride on all the ISPs infostructure instead and their credit is a mere 1% (guessing) of what their cost to deliver it themselves would be.... the beginning of the end of unlimited broadband.. it happened to dialup, and broadband is right around the corner because of exploitations of the service just like this.
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The article is just stating the obvious. Just looking to present 1 of what will soon be many solutions to the problem probably. Nobody likes cookies, nobody likes sending personal data. There's always some critic to *everything* out there. And every advancement in technology always ticks somebody off.
I think anyone in the tech sector knows this already. It's pretty common knowledge that people surf from multiple IP addresses. How about a solution instead? How about adding MAC addresses to stats, or modem_id's (whatever the equivilent to them is a to a MAC) and have webbrowsers send that data too then stats applications can have something more unique to identify a unique customer by than an IP address.
This is yet another reason that unlimited broadband will soon disappear. Now Apple is planning to exploit DSL accounts to max out the traffic for their own benefit. I would imagine, looking at the costs of bandwidth, they'll use about $5 of bandwidth and credit the subscriber around a nickel to the itunes music store. IT's a total win for apple as they now won't have to increase infostructure and can ride on all the ISPs infostructure instead and their credit is a mere 1% (guessing) of what their cost to deliver it themselves would be. ... the beginning of the end of unlimited broadband.. it happened to dialup, and broadband is right around the corner because of exploitations of the service just like this.