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4 commentsThursday, April 10, 2008

Customized Content Makes Users Uncomfortable

Privacy policies ease concern

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By catalog design chapel hill (WPN reader) - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 16:38

Agree

its a fine line between trust and mistrust of online advirtisers. I dont know if this manipulation of ads is good or bad for the users, i think they will eventually start distrusting the ads all together.

By Mads Dam (WPN reader) - Mon, 04/14/2008 - 10:57

Youth of today..?

Guest: "It's a sad reflection of 'youth of today' that they're so trusting..."

Plato: "What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"

Certain things never change, it seems...

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 11:36

It's a sad reflection of

It's a sad reflection of "youth of today" that they're so trusting.

I don't like using Gmail or Yahoo for anything sensitve and am utterly gobsmacked that people would use the same company they advertise with, complete with Voodoo algo for pricing, as they use for site stats and sales performance.

Gullibe isn't the word I'm thinking of. More like "stupid".

A site such as Amazon recognising me and offering me stuff I might be interested in is OK, to find sites I've never seen before doing the same thing is just plain creepy. As for "enforcement", sure that is a concern but so is the fact the government itself is peering over my shoulder too!

By Robert (WPN reader) - Mon, 04/14/2008 - 09:41

Big brother watching?

Trusting? Nah, more a case of big brother is watching, might as well make sure that he plays back the funnier home videos on demand.

Simply put systems are already tracking us. When was the last time anyone argued over a site tracking you with Google Analytics? It keeps quite a bit of info. With that in mind, I as a webmaster could basically track your movements and do pretty much anything I liked anyway.

When was the last time a site was forced to state: "We use Google Analytics to track user behaviour" ?

And, lets face it, Government is the least of most people's worries.