javacool
February 25th, 2002, 05:30 PM
The Yahoo News story:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020225/tc_nm/doubleclick_dc_1
A quote from the Slashdot article:
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Your Rights Online: DoubleClick Gets Into Spam
Posted by timothy on Monday February 25, @02:59PM
from the now-with-50-percent-more-evil dept.
keytoe writes: "Well, just when we thought everyone's favorite Privacy Snoop was starting to mellow out a bit, we discover this little tidbit. DoubleClick is now branching out from the ad serving business into the SPAM business due to the fact that direct email marketing 'is one of the few forms of Internet advertising that is thriving.' Using DARTmail, you can now target your bulk mailings 'based on profile data.' I wonder which profiling data they're talking about. Perhaps, say, all the data they've been collecting for years?"
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A link to the Slashdot page (with people's comments): http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/25/1749232.shtml
Enjoy! *;D
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020225/tc_nm/doubleclick_dc_1
A quote from the Slashdot article:
{QUOTE->
Your Rights Online: DoubleClick Gets Into Spam
Posted by timothy on Monday February 25, @02:59PM
from the now-with-50-percent-more-evil dept.
keytoe writes: "Well, just when we thought everyone's favorite Privacy Snoop was starting to mellow out a bit, we discover this little tidbit. DoubleClick is now branching out from the ad serving business into the SPAM business due to the fact that direct email marketing 'is one of the few forms of Internet advertising that is thriving.' Using DARTmail, you can now target your bulk mailings 'based on profile data.' I wonder which profiling data they're talking about. Perhaps, say, all the data they've been collecting for years?"
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A link to the Slashdot page (with people's comments): http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/25/1749232.shtml
Enjoy! *;D