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 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 right side (see

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 wrote: > OMG you use a web browser? > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for you ... A few days >> ago I renewed

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread David Connors
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Stephen Price 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 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 Ken Schaefer
Well, you went to a Microsoft site to activate your subscription – so I’m guessing you have cookies from Microsoft’s ad network. Then, I guess any other site that’s using MSFT ad network behind the covers will be able to access that same data. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet