Just Basics
join:2003-06-08
Painter, VA
| reply to SUMware
Re: Anti-Spyware Coalition Probes Data Pimping (Phorm, NebuAd)
I'd say that they are about 2 years too late to join this party.
Are they really unaware that this has been an ongoing problem in the U.S. way before Phorm was introduced in Europe?
»www.lightreading.com/document.as···id=89020
BTW, Adzilla is based in Vancouver.
It will take government intervention and Network Neutrality laws to clean up the tubes that are already fouled by these advertising scumbags.
From a recent correspondence to my Representative regarding H.R. 5252 which would have in part provided the FCC with authority to ensure Net Neutrality:
"I believe it is always in the consumers' best interest to have choice and increased competition and I will continue to vote against legislation that would propose government regulation of the internet."
Notice she used the word CHOICE - without guidelines regulating the ISP's there will soon not be a choice available to us. Changing service providers will not be a choice especially when many are considering adding revenue streams to their service and you will not know when they are doing it.
As much as I hate to say it I believe that government intervention will be necessary so the consumer will always have a choice when using the internet.
If one wants to see content target ads there is nothing wrong with that as long as they have the choice to decide that for themselves and not have it force fed to them by ISP's and network providers. |
