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Jan 9 11 1:32 PM
@Mac, they can't and they won't. What we post is worth money to them. It's all data mined, which is why I tend not to post a lot of personal stuff, so they can target advertising. It's what Google on all their onlin services does, it's what Facebook does it's what all the social sites do... That's how they make teir money, by selling advertising space, and they make that advertising space more valuable by mining our posts for information, that enables better targetting of advertisements.
These free services aren'y actually free, the price we pay isn't just loss of privacy, we expected that when we started posting on line in public forums, it's how our thoughts are used to target advertising back at us, that's the real price.
All I can say is thank the authors for NoScript and AdBlock.
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