From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3ee326fd{at}w3.nls.net...
> > They do know it if I'm 300+ years old and make 3 Euros a year,
>
> Most I've seen don't allow ages like that.

It was an example - I give clearly wrong information when I can, not lie my
age by two years or anything like that. When I'm asked for email I use
NotAValid{at}EmailAdress.com or something like that, for example.


> I doubt if the message gets through.  If you really want to protest,
> write a letter to the company.

I do that a *lot*, about a whole bunch of things - but I've never ever
heard anything back, so I don't know if they ever read them. I must have
sent 30 or more emails this year about similar things; questionaires that
cannot be stepped over, being forced to give my email addres, popups that
the user does not get to turn off etc. etc.


> > Because it will lead to more stuff being "targeted" at specific
audiences,
> > which so far (IMO) has only lead to boringly pre-chewed stuff. It's like
> > half the films which have been manuscripted by marketoids to "best fit
the
> > target audience", and turn out terribly boring. I want to be in charge
of
> > what I get to see & read instead of someone who has
calculated what I am
> > like and what I will therefor like. I want to be able to find out what I
> am
> > not supposed to like, and maybe be pleasantly surprised every now and
> then.
>
> That's a fair concern, but providing wrong data is an indicator of
> what you like and don't like too -- they know your attitude and
> have your IP address that can tell where you live. To provide no
> data would be the preferable thing to do and you can only do that
> on sites like this be boycotting them.

Yep, that's in general what I do. I also email about that: that I might
have wanted to see something on a site, but did not enter because I
couldn't do it anonymously.


> > Does that make any sense? I know it's not *that* big a deal, but
still...
>
> Of course I makes sense, but I don't think it actually does any good.

Well, I don't think it does any good, either. All our future belongs to marketoids.


Antti Kurenniemi

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