[OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for you ... A few days ago I renewed my MSDN subscription. Last night I went to The Age newspaper web site and I see a rather surprising ad down the right side (see below). What worries me is that I only have 23 cookies from trusted sites, so somehow

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Greg Keogh
OMG you use a web browser? Yeah, I know, it's so retro early 21st century. Which reminds me ... have you that really old Futurama episode where they wire their brains into the Internet, and they have to fight their way though a barrage of flying brightly coloured Ad banners? We're almost there!

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
OMG you use a web browser? On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for you ... A few days ago I renewed my MSDN subscription. Last night I went to The Age newspaper web site and I see a rather surprising ad down the

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread David Connors
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: OMG you use a web browser? Do you prefer the untargetted TV ads you get during Doomsday Preppers? David.

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
The solution is quite simple https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/ On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: OMG you use a web browser? On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for

RE: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 29 May 2015 10:13 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] More targeted advertising Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for you ... A few days ago I renewed my MSDN subscription. Last night I went to The Age newspaper web site and I