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Originally posted by CycloCide
What privacy issues? What's wrong if an advertising company tracks what sites you visit? Tracking what sites people visit would result in more targeted advertising and would increase the ad revenue to publishers (which is something that would really help a lot of sites in this day and age). |
Privacy issues such as tracking your web usage (what you buy [email, name, address, phone number, even other personal information], what you search for [cars, gay black men, hot lesbians, etc], what OS you're running, demographic information.) Then they can cross-reference that with other demographic information and call your house to try to sell you some gay blackman motion lotion. Then you wonder how they got you on their list. They also sell your PRIVATE information for profit at your expense of privacy.
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Open-source usually doesn't work. Look at what happened to Netscape. |
I think Moak says it better. :]
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Uhm, if investors invested in BearShare, it would be commercialized. |
Commercialization is when something is being advertised to you (as a company wants you to BUY something). In shorter terms someone trying to sell you something you dont need.