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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Some software comes in two versions: with ads, and without.\u00a0 It costs more to buy the “without” version but you don’t have to look at advertising.<\/p>\n

Comcast updated its Privacy Policy.\u00a0 They list all the information they collect about me – personal, billing, products used, internet traffic – and then tell me how they’ll use that information.\u00a0 I found this section particularly interesting:
\n“To Provide Recommendations and Deliver Relevant Advertising and Marketing.”
\n“We may also use information about you and\/or your use of the Services or other services we provide to determine which movies or television shows to recommend to you and to send you promotional communications for the Services and other products and services we think may be of interest to you. We may also use this information to help third-party advertisers and programmers deliver more relevant advertising.”
\nInstead of selling my information to telemarketers, could I choose Option B and simply pay the extra buck a month?
\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’re starting to see some of that in, say, the cell phone market.<\/p>\n

Of course, cell phones don’t operate as a government-sanctioned cartel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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