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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike
Great response Roadies!
Personally, I don't give a shit how much they pay, I'm not going to knowingly install spyware on my machine. I've experienced identity theft once before and that's a royal pain I'm not willing to repeat. Also, WHY would you want to give someone complete access to your surfing habits? So, they can better track you and send you more targetted spam?
Hey, I've got a toolbar you can install on your machine that will report all your surfing habits back to me. Hell, I'll even pay you if you convince all your friends and family to sign up too. That information is invaluable and what Agloco is paying is a pittance compared to what they probably make spamming emails and targetting ads to you.
People == Sheep willing to doing anything for an easy buck
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True. Mike. True.
And it's not so much the user data that bothers me. It's the userdata that is tied to your name, email address, address, spending habits, age, hobbies, browsing habits, search queries, household income, etc. If you have to login to it, chances are you're paying a lot more than you think.
Where Agloco will truly make money is by taking your data (because peoples are going to enter CORRECT data so they can be sure to be PAID later) and selling it to other companies who need it to append bad data. You know that drawing you entered, but you purposefully gave them a bad email address so they wouldn't spam you. Guess what. They're going to spam you now.
(For those who don't know, a data append is when someone takes two records from two sources and fills in the blanks. For example: Data Set A has my name and address, but false email and phone. Data Set B has name, phone and email, but false address. Append those together, and now both data sets have accurate information.)
Baa. Baa.