Re: Someone is testing my firewall

["ABrady" <kcsmart kc rr com>]

You become a marketing statistic. More than that, they try tracking you,
covertly, as much as possible to gather as much information as possible so
they can sell everything about you that they can gather.

For those interetsed, I've found and writtent to, the following sites about
allowing doubleclick to send their trash through there banners:

freshmeat.net
icewalkers.com
appwatch.com (no longer around, now ZDNET)

and a couple of others I no longer visit.

> > As for what doubleclick is up to: usually no good.
> > They are the largest purveyor of "click-through" links on the web.
>
> Can you answer a dumb question: What do you mean by a "click-through"
link?
> What damage can happen if one clicks on a doubleclick-based ad?  I've
heard
> this eluded to before (and I personally avoid double-click ads, but I am
not
> the only user of even my home computer), but never heard an explanation of
> what really happens.
>
> Karen Ellrick
>
>
>
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