BEWARE?
Got a note today about a bad site: SpecificMEDIA.com
It appears to be a company collecting personal information from the Movie Fans website to sell to the advertising community. Asumption is: it is a data miner.
In the Windows "Privacy Report" tab at the bottom of IE7.
One of the statements in the company's "Summary" was: "Unique identifiers issued by a Web site or service for the purpose of identifying an individual over time."
It has shown up as being blocked by Windows Security. Do we warn people? Has anyone else noticed this spyware?
We've been discussing this for the evening at Ninjas, but we felt it should be a wider topic; I'd like some advice on this, if anyone has insights.
It appears to be a company collecting personal information from the Movie Fans website to sell to the advertising community. Asumption is: it is a data miner.
In the Windows "Privacy Report" tab at the bottom of IE7.
One of the statements in the company's "Summary" was: "Unique identifiers issued by a Web site or service for the purpose of identifying an individual over time."
It has shown up as being blocked by Windows Security. Do we warn people? Has anyone else noticed this spyware?
We've been discussing this for the evening at Ninjas, but we felt it should be a wider topic; I'd like some advice on this, if anyone has insights.
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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on -
And the CS guy I just talked to was awful!! Ha! I had to walk him through everything. He really was a dupe.
It's a conspiracy, I say!
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Permalink Reply by Gene Venable on -
I think you do have cookies in Chrome, but that doesn't mean Netflix likes it. I'm in Chrome now. The main problem in Netflix is that you can't watch Instantly unless you are using Internet Explorer or using a tricky add-on in Firefox.
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Permalink Reply by beeswax on -
The main problem in Netflix is that you can't watch Instantly unless you are using Internet Explorer or using a tricky add-on in Firefox.
I am a pretty loyal Firefox user, but believe me, "tricky add-ons" are beyond me. Aside from upgrading when they tell me to, and using AdBlock, there is nothing "tricky" about the Firefox I've got.
And I can use IW just fine, on a Mac with no Microsoft add-ons whatsoever. I've also used IW on Safari.
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Permalink Reply by iluvrocnro on -
i recentlt recieved an email from a .. lovna4love@yahoo.com, stating she read my profile on here, but in looking for this person i couldnt find anything about such a person, do i need to watch for spammers on here ?
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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on -
(S)he was probably deleted shortly after the e-mail went out. Spammers don't last long in here.
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Permalink Reply by iluvrocnro on
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thanks for the info.
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