[Info-vax] Now that's targeted advertising!

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-01-29, Kerry Main <kerry.main at backtothefutureit.com> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> Jojimbo
>> Sent: 29-Jan-15 1:13 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Subject: [New Info-vax] Now that's targeted advertising!
>> 
>> Browsing my local newspaper site and guess what ad Amazon displayed?
>> Vms internals and data structures!  This internet thing is getting more
>> creepy all the time. Jim
>
> If you also have a gmail account, then in the T's+C's, it states that you 
> agree to let Google scan your emails and sell the types of things you are 
> interested in to their "partners". 
>
> Not sure if Amazon is a Google "partner", but if you have a google 
> Account, this might explain the targeted AD's popping up for you on 
> the Amazon web site.
>
> For those interested in privacy (or lack theof), actually reading the 
> Google account acceptance terms makes for a real "interesting" 
> read (start to create a dummy account and read the terms).

Also set aside some time to read it.  In 2010 I noticed the the Youtube
EULA sitting in a small box about 4 lines high (in Firefox), and
decided to copy and paste the lot just to see how big it was.

18 A4 pages when pasted into Word, which incidentally is enough to cover
2 flipcharts :-)

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