(rant warning!) I haven't been able to keep up with the forums I'm supposedly already on. The idea of another migration... aargh. What I really want is a forum that is NOT loaded with things trying to track me and do ad insertion that crashes web browsers, is an avenue for spying on me and for inserting malware into computers (see the the us-cert webpages off the Department of Homeland Security website...)... when someone reads a magazine or goes into a store the magazine publisher and the stores are not injecting them with RFID tags and applying tracers to their clothing and trying to glue their eyeballs and their computers' home page to the magazine home office and the stores.... but go websurfing and there are sites that will force once to do hundreds (no exaggeration) of mouse clicks at one per script, one per "cookie" many of which "expire" in 2038 or longer (which are infinity in computer date terminology....), Active-X controls, etc. -- I set computers I use to notify me everytime one of those things tried to run or wants to write something to my computer, and the amount of overhead involved in clicking away and that extra blasted mouseclick for the more information about the wannabee spyeye as to where it;s from and for hour long, and the clicking away on the scripts, means a lot of WASTED time and effort... I object to being "datamined" and potentially infested with malware and inconvenienced, just when I want to -browse-!
I do NOT object to advertising, and get irritated sometimes advertisers who fail to comprehend, "You know, I really DO want your PRODUCT INFORMATION! But I do NOT want to be poked nd prodding and SPIED ON when looking for -information-, and I don't want to be inconvenienced by not being able to find it quickly, efficiently, accurately, and without INTERFERENCE from being poked and prodded and spied on and hit with 200 annoying intrusions and promotional crap I am NOT interested in!" (I also hate it when sales associates intrude on me as I'm wandering around a store or looking at merchandise or staring at is. It's so offensive to me that there are times when I really did want to ask a sales associate about something or have a question, and I automatically said, "NO!" in hostile tone when the sales associate walked up to me and asked if I needed assistance!, instead of asking the question I had! )
I also do NOT want lowest common denominator "you are a pair of eyeballs to exploit and MARKET -stuff- to!" Targeted ads I;ve gotten averse to, also, because of the "beaming" technologies and the slimeball stuff from adclick.com doubleclick.com etc. etc. etc. If market researchers want my opinion, they can solicit me DIRECTLY for it, and/or pay me--bugging my computer without benefit to ME or my explicit permission and explanations of exactly who is getting the data and why, is guaranteed to infuriate me....
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Date: 2009-05-12 03:22 am (UTC)I haven't been able to keep up with the forums I'm supposedly already on. The idea of another migration... aargh. What I really want is a forum that is NOT loaded with things trying to track me and do ad insertion that crashes web browsers, is an avenue for spying on me and for inserting malware into computers (see the the us-cert webpages off the Department of Homeland Security website...)... when someone reads a magazine or goes into a store the magazine publisher and the stores are not injecting them with RFID tags and applying tracers to their clothing and trying to glue their eyeballs and their computers' home page to the magazine home office and the stores.... but go websurfing and there are sites that will force once to do hundreds (no exaggeration) of mouse clicks at one per script, one per "cookie" many of which "expire" in 2038 or longer (which are infinity in computer date terminology....), Active-X controls, etc. -- I set computers I use to notify me everytime one of those things tried to run or wants to write something to my computer, and the amount of overhead involved in clicking away and that extra blasted mouseclick for the more information about the wannabee spyeye as to where it;s from and for hour long, and the clicking away on the scripts, means a lot of WASTED time and effort... I object to being "datamined" and potentially infested with malware and inconvenienced, just when I want to -browse-!
I do NOT object to advertising, and get irritated sometimes advertisers who fail to comprehend, "You know, I really DO want your PRODUCT INFORMATION! But I do NOT want to be poked nd prodding and SPIED ON when looking for -information-, and I don't want to be inconvenienced by not being able to find it quickly, efficiently, accurately, and without INTERFERENCE from being poked and prodded and spied on and hit with 200 annoying intrusions and promotional crap I am NOT interested in!" (I also hate it when sales associates intrude on me as I'm wandering around a store or looking at merchandise or staring at is. It's so offensive to me that there are times when I really did want to ask a sales associate about something or have a question, and I automatically said, "NO!" in hostile tone when the sales associate walked up to me and asked if I needed assistance!, instead of asking the question I had! )
I also do NOT want lowest common denominator "you are a pair of eyeballs to exploit and MARKET -stuff- to!" Targeted ads I;ve gotten averse to, also, because of the "beaming" technologies and the slimeball stuff from adclick.com doubleclick.com etc. etc. etc. If market researchers want my opinion, they can solicit me DIRECTLY for it, and/or pay me--bugging my computer without benefit to ME or my explicit permission and explanations of exactly who is getting the data and why, is guaranteed to infuriate me....