UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads 238
TechDirt has an interesting article about a UK-based company that is trying to work with ISPs to make use of user surfing data to serve targeted ads. "Late last year, we heard about a company that was trying to work with ISPs to make use of that data themselves to insert their own ads based on your surfing history -- and now we've got the first report of some big ISPs moving into this realm. Over in the UK three big ISPs, BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media have announced plans to use your clickstream data to insert relevant ads as you surf through a new startup called Phorm."
nice (Score:5, Funny)
Porn ads? (Score:5, Funny)
In other news.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Porn ads? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:nice (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Porn ads? (Score:5, Funny)
She may just assume it's because of her own porn surfing?
Re:Porn ads? (Score:1, Funny)
Tell her that getting thinner would help things a bit, and that perhaps she could do a bit better with her personal hygiene.
I've never tried that myself, but I think it will sort things out.