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Comment Re:Defend yourself against Doubleclick (Score 1) 242

by Stakesauce on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @12:05PM (#18856337) Attached to: Outcry Over Google's Purchase of Doubleclick

Sorry Sulfur. I call BS. Firefox has Google search on by default. Not to mention setting my home page until I change it. So, as you say, give people a choice.

like...

This is the first time you installed Firefox.

For privacy reasons, Firefox has the capability to block various ad servers on the Internet. These ad servers have the ability to track you across multiple web sites. By blocking them you keep your web surfing private.

Would you like to have ad blocking on by default?

[yes] [no]

Netflix Users Experience Paradox of Abundance 432

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @02:07PM from the too-much-of-a-good-thing dept.

prostoalex writes "The deal seems to be rather simple — you pay a monthly fee, receive a certain number of DVDs, and as soon as you watch them, and send them back, there's more coming. This simple model made Netflix into a $1.4 bln company, but now, Wall Street Journal reports, some Netflix users are experiencing the abundance paradox — the movies arrive, collect dust on the customer's desks, and then are sent back for the new set of movies to face the same fortune. From the article: "'It's a paradox of abundance,' said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of culture and communication at New York University. If people aren't pressured to see a movie in a specific time frame, he said, viewers tend to put it lower on their priority list. 'When you have every choice in front of you, you have less urgency about any particular choice.'"

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