Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies?

[Scott Christopher Dodson <gsi22419 () gsaix2 cc GaSoU EDU>]

You may disable cookies which essentially stops them from tracking, which
I don't think they're doing anyway.

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scott


On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Just Marc wrote:

>  |  In my opinion the above information are not sufficient to generate profiles
>  |  about individuals, although they allow the generation of general statistics.
>  |  But this is rather normal for a database service. ;)
>
>  It is not normal in this case,  because the database is certainly *not*
> needed,  The user knows what DVD is in his drive, the chapters are mapped,
> menued and named.   There is absolutely no need for accessing an external
> db.   Therefore it smells like they are doing it for their own statistics
> which I don't think is just, especially because the user cannot turn this
> behaviour off,   It should be the choice of the user, and it should be
> turned off per default.
>
>       bye,
>               Marc.
>
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