Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies?

From: Scott Christopher Dodson (gsi22419at_private)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 06:42:34 PST

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    You may disable cookies which essentially stops them from tracking, which
    I don't think they're doing anyway.
    
    --
    scott
    
    
    On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Just Marc wrote:
    
    >  |  In my opinion the above information are not sufficient to generate profiles
    >  |  about individuals, although they allow the generation of general statistics.
    >  |  But this is rather normal for a database service. ;)
    > 
    >  It is not normal in this case,  because the database is certainly *not*
    > needed,  The user knows what DVD is in his drive, the chapters are mapped,
    > menued and named.   There is absolutely no need for accessing an external
    > db.   Therefore it smells like they are doing it for their own statistics
    > which I don't think is just, especially because the user cannot turn this
    > behaviour off,   It should be the choice of the user, and it should be
    > turned off per default.
    > 
    > 	bye,
    > 		Marc.
    > 
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