Let me add to your list Sgt.Gene.Sgt.Gene wrote:
Ok, so will you please explain:vanmani wrote:
Why talk when you're clearly wrong?Sgt.Gene wrote:
Ya, but in order for EA to see the sites you visit they scan your cookies. When you input information into your computer over the internet, it is stored in cookies. Which means, everything I do over the internet, everything I type into my borwser is recorded.
a) the picture is not even a photoshop, it's done in MS paint I'll hazard. The creator wasn't even TRYING to make it look real.
b) Cookies are a terrible place to look to see what siets you visit, and it would be a very poorly designed web page that stored your input in cookies.
Cookies are just little pieces of data that the web page can specify to store on your computer, generally they can be used to identify some feature you want to the server. i.e. it might store what particular stylesheet you have chosen to use on a particular site.
When you fill in a form on a webpage it will generally just be sent to another script/page on the server, which will store that information or act on that information server-side. The only way this information would be stored on your local computer is if your browser has some browser specific "remember my form information" feature enabled.
People have THEORISED that 2142's spyware stuff may scan cookies to determine if you visit certain popular websites which do store cookies, although this could be thwarted by simply disabling cookies. Seems more likely to me that it would try and scan through your history lists for IE/Firefox/Safari/Opera or whatever. This could also be thwarted by turning off or clearing that list, if you really wanted to.
It does seem more likely to ME, as someone who actually knows something about what he's commenting on, that they would be looking at IP addresses to determine location. Location based targeting is probably as fine-grained as would be useful for an advertising service on BF2142. i.e. no point in giving an ad for Wal-mart in Australia, 'cos we don't have Wal-mart! Similarly, no point giving an ad for Woolworths in USA 'cos they don't have Woolworths!
I see very dubious value in knowing what sites you've visited to target ads. They already know you're a "game player" who "purchased and is playing BF2142 online". That's enough. Seems unlikely that they're going to send you ... comic book related ads just because you visited penny-arcade. Way too much maintenance involved in updating those kinds of lists, for virtually no gain. However, I won't say it's impossible.
In short, your browser only records what you tell it to. And there is browser specific implementations on how to do this. EA could use this to target ads, but there would be far too much maintenance involved in it for very limited benefit. Seems far more likely that they would just be pushing location based advertising, which can be done easily and cheaply based on your IP address, which is apparently what the guy in the interview said it did.
Edit: History has nothing to do with your cookies.
1. Why do they need a disclaimer, if they are just tracing my IP
2. What the fuck are they installing on my machine (besides the game)
3. If this has nothing to do with looking at anything on my own computer why not keep the ad's serverside?
4. They know what nation I am from, I choose it when I created a player, so why do you try to collect my IP?
5. If they know that I "purchased and is playing BF2142 online", why are they collecting anonymous information?
6. Using my GUID, they can collect the information, like the time I logged in, as they stated they are doing with the software. So why install additional software?
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Yea, and you keep coming back with the same generic responses.Chaos81 wrote:
The funny part is, you didn't.dubbs wrote:
It looks like I did that already.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pid=880784#p880784
Last edited by dubbs (2006-10-17 17:42:00)