No requests are sent when I hit the "Save Changes" button. I have a small amount of confidence that my preferences are going to be picked up.
It doesn't seem to work in Chrome. Worked for me in Firefox.
Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
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Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#62Does anyone know if this applies to iPad-only customers? That's my only Verizon account, but the opt-out link requires a phone number to log in. (Ditto for the "forgot user id" form.)
Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#63A related story: I was recently shopping around for a new ISP. One I considered was Verizon FiOS. In order to see the prices in my area, I had to enter my address. Two weeks later, I got a letter in the mail. Written outside on the envelope was something like: "We noticed you were checking out our website! Here's a special offer just for you..." It's not the same as what OP posted, but it certainly left me creeped ou…
This is common with many, many services.
I'll generally enter another address in the neighborhood.
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#64Offtopic: This is the first time I'm seeing a post "on" app.net and not "about" app.net
Might be something to do with people usually not linking to tweets unless they're really notable. And app.net items are effectively just long tweets.
> And app.net items are effectively just long tweets.
App.net doesn't have a limit on message length?
Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#65A related story: I was recently shopping around for a new ISP. One I considered was Verizon FiOS. In order to see the prices in my area, I had to enter my address. Two weeks later, I got a letter in the mail. Written outside on the envelope was something like: "We noticed you were checking out our website! Here's a special offer just for you..." It's not the same as what OP posted, but it certainly left me creeped ou…
I get pounds of mail every year advertising U-Verse when AT&T doesn't offer U-Verse at my address. The mail has been coming for years now. Big thick envelopes full of brochures, little letter-sized envelopes, oversized postcards. At least Verizon is advertising a service you can actually buy.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've taken to flagging all comments like this. I don't think it even remotely adds to the discussion to pick some usability issue and harp on it. These kind of comments crop up for every story. Easy way to score points, not useful, buries better comments. I think a good rule of thumb is that if you didn't need to read the article to make a comment, it's not a good comment.
You're way out of line flagging this, in my opinion. It's a security issue, and a big one at that. I also see no reason to believe that the user is attempting to "score points". Lastly, the comment is in fact quite useful.
I agree wholeheartedly with this. We're supposed to be the good guys--revealing security issues should be something that gets heavily rewarded with karma.
Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've taken to flagging all comments like this. I don't think it even remotely adds to the discussion to pick some usability issue and harp on it. These kind of comments crop up for every story. Easy way to score points, not useful, buries better comments. I think a good rule of thumb is that if you didn't need to read the article to make a comment, it's not a good comment.
That's exactly what the down-vote is meant for. If you think a comment is off-topic, down vote the post and perhaps add a comment as to why you think it deserves to be down-voted. Flagging is expensive, in that it requires mod (human) attention. It should be reserved for spam and other egregious posts. Let the mods spend their valuable time on more important tasks.
Unfortunately, many of us don't have downvote rights yet. If this were the case, I definitely wouldn't flag unless community standards were flagrantly violated!
Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#68I haven't received an email and when I logged and checked the settings on my account I was already opted out.
Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#69Just so everyone knows, AT&T does the same thing. You have 30 days from the date of your contract before they start passing it out, but I believe you can opt out of future transactions on the site. Try going to http://att.com/ecpnioptout (if you got a new contract with your iPhone 5, do it this week!) Edit: I should say, AT&T does something similar . I do not know if it is the same thing, since their opt-out page mak…
AT&T's is much more invasive -- it is across all of their telecom platforms (DSL, TV, wireless, wifi, etc). They also will log location information for advertising: http://www.att.com/gen/privacy-policy?pid=2506
You can find more information from their AdWorks division: http://adworks.att.com/press.html
If they were to begin network sniffing, they could potentially build powerful user profiles that would be more valuable than Facebook's data (and truly "frictionless"). Your passive internet browsing would start influencing the commercials you see on TV.
Re: Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might be something to do with people usually not linking to tweets unless they're really notable. And app.net items are effectively just long tweets.
> And app.net items are effectively just long tweets. App.net doesn't have a limit on message length?
256 characters, IIRC