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Is this (Doug1izaerw13.cloudfront.net) an invasion of privacy?

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Thu, Sep 16 2010 7:45 PM

  I don't like this. I was surfing the web and decided to check out the WGT forums and at the top of the screen, I was seeing ads from the web sites I had visited. This is not right. I don't need WGT following my every move on the Internet.

  WGT needs to come clean about this adware that's now stuck on my computer. I tried to do a forum search on the Doug.net thing, and nothing come up at all. I know there was a thread someone wrote asking what this was. Why is WGT being so secretive about this adware?

  I e-mailed WGT about this over a week ago and still haven't heard anything from them on this. Judging from their secrecy on this, I'm probably not going to either.

• strokes11 19 Posts

  Thu, Sep 16 2010 10:38 PM

  No.  Sites advertise all the time by doing things like that using your IP address.  They usually do it with advertisements from businesses in your area though.

• Johniedino 786 Posts

  Fri, Sep 17 2010 4:37 AM

  Richard wgt had a post on this dated 09/01/2010. I would put a link here but not sure how to.

  J

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Fri, Sep 17 2010 6:20 AM

  Hey John,

  Yeah, I saw that thread you're talking about a while back mentioning that is was Kissmetrics, but now it seems to have disappeared. I don't think it's proper for a Internet company to follow our web traffic. I'll start removing it from the Adobe settings manager after I log-out of WGT.

  At $700 dollars a month, I hope this Kissmetrics is worth it to WGT.

• Johniedino 786 Posts

  Fri, Sep 17 2010 9:18 AM

  Richard4168:

  Hey John,

  Yeah, I saw that thread you're talking about a while back mentioning that is was Kissmetrics, but now it seems to have disappeared. I don't think it's proper for a Internet company to follow our web traffic. I'll start removing it from the Adobe settings manager after I log-out of WGT.

  At $700 dollars a month, I hope this Kissmetrics is worth it to WGT.

  Good idea Dick. Me thinks I will do the same. 

  J

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Fri, Sep 17 2010 9:53 AM

  Dick? That's used for making babies. My name is Richard.  : )