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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
News flash: Pretty much everything you do digitally can be tracked along those lines.
Search engines use your search history to target results; Google scans your email to send you appropriate ads; Netflix knows not just what's in your queue, and what you've watched, but what parts of what movies you've watched. Credit card companies also track your purchases.
And yes, ebook retailers are certainly doing the same thing.
If you don't want to be tracked, then buy paper books in a physical store, pay with cash, and never mention it to anyone.  |
Interesting. So you believe that if something is being done already on a massive scale then we shouldn't worry about it. It's OK for people to take electronic data just because they can. I guess that publishers and authors shouldn't worry their pretty little heads about copyright infringement either. If they don't like it they shouldn't publish. In a way I'd be OK with that. At least the ebooks on the file sharing sites could have this type of garbage removed from them.
In the mean time I'll continue to buy from indie authors that don't attach this type of baggage and I'll let my MP and Privacy Commissioner that I don't think it's OK.