> Sure it's ethical if the terms of service w/my service provider makes
> no mention of any obligation of this type. mbs
Forgive my lack of precision. Your ISP doesn't care; you're just buying a pipe to the outside world from them. The service provider, that being the website owner for the site you visit, needs to pay their bills, and they do it through advertising. Not participating in advertising (or not helping them produce detailed advertising data) seems solid to me, but to feed misleading data to the site or ad owners seems rather ethically questionable.
Marco
> > That said. Your personal information, such that it is, is the currency
> > that is paid to the service provider in order to sell advertising. Is it
> > ethical to provide no data or obfuscated data, knowing that it will hinder
> > the ability of the service provider to pay their bills?
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