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My homepage on the internet is Yahoo! (probably because of YIM, I suppose, and my own laziness about hunting out something more interesting). Those of you who have the same Yahoo! homepage know that it starts with a micropage/pop-up that lists current headlines, the weather and a couple of ads. It's no big deal, really. I open up Firefox and move about my way unperturbed by needing to click away from such a pedestrian, ordinary portal.
I turned my 'puter back on after a brief outing involving meeting some pals for Happy Hour (45 minutes, actually ) and I discover that Match (dot) com has decided to show me who's "available for chat" in an ad; again, that's fine, except that they're all men.
It's not like I've thought closets are for more than clothing storage for 34+ years, but I gotta say that this put me back somewhat. Which cookies are collected by whom, and what happens with this info? And, again: I don't have any pretense to anything like internet "privacy", but finding such blatant profiling just...well...puts my joint outta shape.
And before anyone else goes there: "But ch'ahh, Blanche"
I turned my 'puter back on after a brief outing involving meeting some pals for Happy Hour (45 minutes, actually ) and I discover that Match (dot) com has decided to show me who's "available for chat" in an ad; again, that's fine, except that they're all men.
It's not like I've thought closets are for more than clothing storage for 34+ years, but I gotta say that this put me back somewhat. Which cookies are collected by whom, and what happens with this info? And, again: I don't have any pretense to anything like internet "privacy", but finding such blatant profiling just...well...puts my joint outta shape.
And before anyone else goes there: "But ch'ahh, Blanche"