WAY OFF TOPIC: Tracking cookies

[Walter Vaughan]

I just a few minutes ago I was looking for someone on facebook.
They weren't, but the deep search had someone with that same name on
myspace.

1st) I hadn't been to myspace in years and I noticed you can now sign on to
myspace with your facebook account. Wow.

2nd) And this is where it gets weird. The myspace page had a banner add for
Centrify. Centrify has a free and pro version to use Active Directory
as a sign-on for Ubuntu, which I installed last week. Yeah, Maroon5 fans
are interested in AD managing user accounts on Ubuntu servers. Weird.

3rd) Then the next myspace page I looked at had a banner from Professional
Projectors. Isn't that interesting just yesterday I was all over their
webstite.
Now I am just being target marketed to.

I fully support the idea of advertiser sponsored stuff. But can't they be
a little less obvious? It would be like watching football on ESPN and
having an ad for Anzio inserted. First you would think cool, and then
you would think something is not right here. How many football fans
need to purchase a terminal emulator? Oh wait, there used to be a billboard
for filePro in the Indy airport that I remember seeing years ago.

See, I did get filePro in the discussion.