"No Associated Harm?"

[peristaltor]

jwz shares this delightful and disturbing "debate" about the Do Not Track feature of browsers. When someone proposed "marketing" be allowed on a list of "Permitted Uses for Third Parties and Service Providers" in future standards definitions, a few expressed confusion. This prompted Marketer Rage-On:

Marketing fuels the world. It is as American as

Comments

[bill_sheehan]

One clear harm is that the offers are offensive and intrusive. I don't want to see your scam offers taking up half my bloody screen. The Internet is not a circular.

[peristaltor]

Darn tootin'. Also, the radio is not an outlet, the phone is not a direct route to consumers, the television . . . don't get me started on the television.

We can't answer the phone freely anymore, once the marketing scum realized the Do Not Call law had neither enforcement nor penalties.