How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Is the NYTimes login page itself the point you're making, or do I really need to login?
 
Glaucus said:
Is the NYTimes login page itself the point you're making, or do I really need to login?
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Keep forgetting about the NYT login.
Yeah, you need to log in - but it's not paid content so you don't have to log in and give them money. Not sure that posting the entire article here would count as fair use and if something like SOPA gets put through then Wayne may end up a prison guards play thing - and we wouldn't want that.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Keep forgetting about the NYT login.
Yeah, you need to log in - but it's not paid content so you don't have to log in and give them money. Not sure that posting the entire article here would count as fair use and if something like SOPA gets put through then Wayne may end up a prison guards play thing - and we wouldn't want that.
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Oh well...
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Looks like Forbes has lifted large chunks of the article and I don't believe that the Forbes article is a sign in article - but what do I know. My machine is so full of cookies :) I'm logged into a million places all the time.
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That's better.

I like the anecdote:
What Target discovered fairly quickly is that it creeped people out that the company knew about their pregnancies in advance.

“If we send someone a catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and they’ve never told us they’re pregnant, that’s going to make some people uncomfortable,” Pole told me. “We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even if you’re following the law, you can do things where people get queasy.”​
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Welcome to the information age. I noticed that every web page I go to advertizes the latest Google Galaxy Nexus phone. Is it because that while I've been working on my Android project, the majority of my Google queries begin with "Android" (doing so almost always gets me straight to the developer reference page I need on the first result, so I may run 50 such queries a day). However, Google now knows I'm an Android freak and sends me ads about Android night and day. Can't say that I care really but targeted ads are kinda new to me (I used to run an ad-blocker until I realized that it interfered with some websites I frequent).

Or does everyone get those ads and I'm just a paranoid android?
 
Glaucus said:
I noticed that every web page I go to advertizes the latest Google Galaxy Nexus phone. ...
Or does everyone get those ads and I'm just a paranoid android?
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Maybe you could think yourself paranoid but your instincts are right here. It would be clearer to you if you searched for something less mainstream like ... well, about 4 weeks ago, maybe more, the motor of our built in vacuum burned out. I did a search for a replacement, turned up a dozen candidate vendors and quickly whittled that down to one, ordered the part and was done with it. For the whole of the following week every google ads supporting page was trying to sell me precisely that model of vacuum motor.
 
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