Pay for Opera?
John,
Do you live in a parallel universe. You haven't had to pay for Opera for a good long while now. I think you've got your Opera history arse about face.
Paris because she's got more idea about web browsers than John...
Posts by Gareth Jones
103 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2008
Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face
Fraudsters pool data to beat plastic fraud checks
Wednesday 11th June 2008 14:15 GMT 
There's a simple solution
If credit card companies would only allow transactions through their own websites (in a similar style to Paypal) then 99% of potential fraud could be removed. This is such an obvious solution that I can only assume that the cc companies have though of it. Therefore I am forced to the conclusion that the card issuers have ulterior motives for not implementing such a system.
Phorm launches data pimping fight back
Monday 10th March 2008 00:42 GMT
Not convinced by either side
I'll certainly opt out of this, simply because I don't see how this particular scheme can benefit me.
However I'm totally unconvinced by the nay sayers. In what way exactly is this sinister? I simply don't get it. Legal challenges to this scheme? Forget it. If you object change your ISP.
Targetted advertising sinister? The internet is simply full of it, it runs on it. Mr and Ms 2.4 children don't realise just how driven by advertising the major search engines are. They just see Google as a useful and free tool, it never occurs to them to think that Google has to make it's fortune somehow. If they did realise would they find it sinister? Probably not. TV ads aren't random, nor are ads in magazines. Obviously they are targetted based on your chosen viewing/reading material. The difference here is that if you don't suddenly get an ad in the middle of a serious documentary that hints to your wife what you watch when she isn't there.
I suspect the real issue a lot of people have with this is that the ads they get when people are looking over their shoulder will reflect the browsing they do when they are alone. That's the privacy issue under threat here. Personally I don't look at anything on the web when I'm alone that I wouldn't do when others are present. Do you?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
