Hello Frankie, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 7:08:01 PM, you wrote:
F> privacy in browsering is cool.. And getting rarer with time. :-((( F> just keep in mind that you have no right to expect ecommerce apps to work if F> you make all authentication methods non functional... If I'm ordering something, I don't expect to be anonymous, of course, but why do I have to be authenticated if I am just visiting a site? Why would you force me to accept a cookie from someone who is trying to track my every move on the net? Why would I want to accept a script designed to snoop in my computer as much as possible? If I have trouble with a site, I'll go to another one. One usually gets a few in Google. :-) If EVERY site I find is disfunctional, I'll buy it locally if I can. If not, I'll call their 800 number and read the item from the screen. If at all possible, I will NOT deal with an intrusive merchant! F> We have precious little authentication methods available to us now. F> If people all start spoofing their details online then no-one can F> expect this stuff to work anymore. Why not? Perhaps I am not understanding what you mean by authentication. F> my point is turn it off when using online apps. It would seem as though that is where it is needed most. Am I missing something? It seems as though the basis for placing ads is to track every move of the user. A bit like someone following me around. I drive to a store, they record the path I took to get there. When I get out of the car, they follow me in the store. They record everything I look at in the store, especially if I pick it up, and if I come back to look that gets recorded too. If I buy something, the purchase is recorded. In many cases the name, address, phone, email address are sent to the advertiser to sell on some list for spammers. Now if someone was doing that physically, would you not object and consider it an invasion of privacy? Please tell me why it is so hard to build an app that just lets me visit and look around anonymously. -- Thank you, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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