At least Apple asks, Google just takes.
If that were true, users would have to opt in rather than opting out.
At least Apple asks, Google just takes.
No you wouldn't. You would scream and rant if an iPhone cost you $400 minimum plus a calling and data plan.
We are not a communist nor socialist country.
More's the pity.
Opt-out link don't work, says I need iOS 4. I have it.
I put myself out to mute the ads on the radio, record everything I watch on TV and fast forward through, I avoid the irrititants in the street trying to shove their future litter and landfill content into my hand.
Anyone complaining that this should be an Opt-In option is missing something fairly crucial. It is.
You know when you agreed to those terms and conditions? Yep. That was you opting in. The fact that you're being offered the chance to opt out of recieveing targeted ads is a nice touch but in the end you already agreed to the terms and agreements offered.
So you have a choice - which is more important to you?
Anyone complaining about privacy issues but yearning to live under a communist or socialist government has to go read about the Stasi and the KGB.
You can debate the rights and wrongs of capitalism, democracy, socialism and communism - that's a great conversation right there - but I'd love to see anyone argue that Communist regimes are or have been in any way admirable in their approaches to personal privacy and civil rights.
People freak out about targeted ads while wishing that a single, all powerful, state organisation would run all aspects of their lives. Classic.
Oh, you mean like that iPhone you're holding in your hand?
It amazes me how many people rail against these oh-so-spooky and odious capitalist constructs, all while tapping these messages from what is probably the pinnacle of capitalism and materialism if there ever was one...
...If you're going to pretend to have not bought in already, I hope you at least the decency to admit your hypocrisy to yourself, even if you refuse to admit it here.
Here's what I'll admit to: I love my iPhone, and I think if someone is going to serve me ads, it may as well be the creator of the platform...
...If ads going to be served to me anyway, I may as well see ones that are relevant and perhaps even useful.
I would gladly pay double for products that I don't get advertised through.
Go look at Venezuela and North Korea, see how well the people are doing, being ruled by one, unaccountable person. Then get back to me.I would rather a state organisation (ie one by the people for the people - hmm remember that idea; how quaint) would run my life than the motivations of a (very) few mega rich manipulative industrialists and bankers. But as you say "that's a great conversation" and one I shouldn't have bought into so flippantly in response to Tampa Tom.:
Go look at Venezuela and North Korea, see how well the people are doing, being ruled by one, unaccountable person. Then get back to me.