Re: Help!! Not invaded but can\'t reply
While in an ideal world no one would ever have to pay for servers or bandwidth or computers, those are realities of running any site. Especially one that's as popular as TractorByNet. I dislike intrustive and annoying ads as much as the next person, and I despise popups and am a huge privacy advocate.
But with that said, I still believe there are times when some things are harmless. DoubleClick is hardly what I'd call a 'spyware' company. Though they certainly track more information than a lot of websites, they do allow an opt-out method. If you cannot get the opt-out to work, that's unfortunate, but not something we have control over. What I understand Doubleclick does is merely track users who view their banners. So they might see that I view their banners here on TBN and also on MSNBC.com, or other sites. Some people don't want ANY sort of tracking like that, and I delete Doubleclick cookies when I remember, but I also don't view it as bad as what most spyware companies do: tracking each website you visit from special software with hidden code.
Muhammad locked the other thread (only he and I can lock threads) because when a solution is presented, that's basically it. Getting into the details of whether or not something is ethical or "good business" is not what any forum on TBN is for, so I thought he did the right thing.
So hopefully the viewing experience isn't too bad for most of you, I know I have no problem with formatting on either my home or work computer, and the smaller monitor one is 1024x768 resolution.
-Ibrahim
