There Are A Thousand Barry Dillers Watching You From Inside Your Computer

I know there are tracking bugs running on my computer because wherever I go on the Internet, I get identical ads. You probably do too! And you know why? Because you’re the pig-trough at which Barry Diller’s feeding, according to a review of secretly-installed web-tracking cookies that collect profiles for resale: “The top venue for such technology, the Journal found, was IAC/InterActive Corp.’s Dictionary.com. A visit to the online dictionary site resulted in 234 files or programs being downloaded onto the Journal’s test computer, 223 of which were from companies that track Web users…. ‘Whether it’s one or 10 cookies, it doesn’t have any impact on the customer experience, and we disclose we do it,’ says Dictionary.com spokesman Nicholas Graham. ‘So what’s the beef?’”