[mrweasel]

You're assuming that advertising is the correct or only business strategy. I wouldn't mind getting tracked, if I felt that I could trust the companies collecting data about me, or perhaps just get access to it.

Honestly I don't see the value of tracking though. I tried running my browser without Ghostery recently. The "tracked" ads are generally pretty poorly targeted. I got a lot of ads for TransIP after browsing their price plans, but that's sort of the wrong time, at this point I'm already aware of them.

Amazons recommendations are pretty good for books, but not much more than that and that's despite them having huge amounts of data.

So why the need to track me, if you can't do anything useful with it?

[woud420]

And it's getting better and better. Recommendation for books is much easier in that context since you have a hard sale and can compare to other hard sales.. and not assumptions based on visits.

[TheLegace]

I know the suggestion for Katy Perry on Netflix was dead on. The irony is that there is nothing more that I hate than Katy Perry.