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Charter Will Monitor Customers’ Web Surfing to Target Ads

bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web. The cable company will sell the data to a firm called NebuAd, which in turn will use it to show ads to Web-surfing Charter [...]

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  • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1So are they going to be REPLACING ads that are placed by other companies?

    They say you won't see more ads, just more "targeted" ads. How do they do that without "hijacking" the web advertising space that another company already paid for?

    And Ron Paul would LOVE this. The company can do whatever they want. If you don't like it, just get another provider!

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