A Peculiar Blog

We all know about how some commercials seem to take on something of a life of their own. Infamous Campaigns like “Where’s the Beef?” and “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” are just two examples of commercial campaigns that not only went “viral” but managed to become part of our culture.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today’s society is getting more and more subject to every kind of tracking you can imagine, from GPS systems in our phones and cars to satellite maps that can be zoomed close enough to make out your house from orbit. [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Not only are they snooping on the browsing habits of customers, it’s going a lot farther than that. First there’s an article on dailymail.co.uk where BT, One of the UK’s largest ISPs, admits to spying on 36,000 customers. The article tells how BT chose 36,000 of it’s users for [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads If you’re reading this then it’s pretty likely that you’ve noticed the banner ad at the top of the page and the half-banners between each entry. I’ve decided to try out some of the more commonly used forms of advertising such as Bidvertiser and some others to see if they [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads One of the several plugins I use with firefox is Adblock. It’s a handy filter that makes it possible to remove things from websites as they load.
Say you load a website and it’s got an ad banner that you’re sick of looking at. With Adblock installed all you [...]