My last ban hat was completely uncalled for and I never received any constructive discourse about it. Just a cowardly ignore. Yes, it does hurt the community when one or more mods operates with a hard on.
It's happened to me over the last couple of weeks. @Okuma Steve fixed it, but it's happened once or twice since. It hasn't happened to me in about a week, though. It's annoying.
Damned right. I'm not "hiding" and certainly not foolish enough to believe anything I do online is actually private or secure. But I don't want ads/sites tracking me/my activity intrusively without my excplicit permission to do so. That way I decide if I want to use that site or not. Another...
It might be the same annoying ad that is redirecting me to some app:
http://tracking.crobo.com/aff_r?offer_id=16501&aff_id=11451&url=https://itunes.apple.com/app/opentable/id296581815?mt=8&referrer=mat_tracking_id%3D1026fd9405929a13324b4d6eb2bbc1&urlauth=297222866686564866524481400504
In the last few days, my browser has been asking to allow ODT to track my location. I have my location services turned off for most apps so that it asks if I want to allow or not. The ODT has never used my GPS location before. Not sure why location services would be of any use on this site...