Comments on: Microsoft European P2P file sharing deal

By: Dinnae Ken Ken

Dinnae Ken Ken — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:49:15 +0000

I think most would like advertising to utterly disappear for similar reasoning.
I’m pretty sick of (telephone) cold calls, automated calls and mail shots that tend to presume you don’t know what’s best for you.

The above are pretty transparent methods to try and trick the receiver into accepting a ‘level 2′ incursion into their privacy. Even many recent ‘Charity’ mail shots I’ve got have disclaimers in tiny lettering that this is a for profit concern!!!
If you have signed up to not receive these and still do, every single call is unlawful (uk) and should be reported, but even that is frustratingly difficult to do.

Using Firefox and a couple of addons + HOST file and other safeguards pretty much removes every single advert and annoying bit of code from the internet.

The death of advertising comes when the companies that employ advertisers realise that people want to buy stuff and spend their money, but on things THEY CHOOSE and will find FOR THEMSELVES using the internet search engines to find the points of sale or the best solution for them. Trying to force decisions will put off more prospective buyers than it will encourage. I don’t need to run a survey to prove that.

In my pleasant future utopia, the advert dies replaced with nothing but the search tools that already exist and even Google does not skew search results in favour of the retailer or manufacturer that pays the most…

Ye Ken, Ken?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:25:47 +0000

MSN messenger ?

No thanks !

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:59:26 +0000

DRM may be here to stay and ads may be a staple of the Web but users are free to do everything possible to avoid such, which may include entire sites and apps. Clearly it is NOT what people want, if it ever was, and profiteers will need new marketting tools. That is, not spyware, which obviates trust, but giving them what they want. What do they want? What would they pay for? You have to ask them. Most would tell you freely. They also need a secure and efficient way of paying. Many can’t use or don’t like Paypal type of methods for various reasons, including it’s complicatedness.