Comments on: Bad habits…that help you get ahead

By: sittingnut

sittingnut — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:53:48 +0000

i think in this case it was probably an error rather than an intentional restriction. though one cannot be sure . usually in this kind of form opt out is accepted without any problems.

By: Janin

Janin — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:44:59 +0000

Well as they say “nothing is free in life” (or the internet). If they called the link “the New Scientist career guide” less people would click on it I bet since New Scientist is a science magazine which you need to pay for. The guide is in html format since they can track which ip adresses are reading their pages ( this is done by tagging certain images on the page ) even if you save the html to your drive I bet some of these images won’t be saved as these are the tagged images. So you get your guide they get free advertising ( New Scientist is plastered all across the guide ) and also get an idea of who is intreasted in this kind of thing by you having to tick that box.
Hope this helps.

By: Janin

Janin — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:20:19 +0000

I think the expression “You don’t get nothing for free” applies here. The “Career Guide” is clearly labelled “New Scientist” on the website, so a better title for it would be “The New Scientist Career Guide”. – Of course they wouldn’t put that on the linking hyperlink since most people would be less likely to click on it as “New Scientist” is a weekly paid for science publication similar to the monthly “Nature”. Aditionally they intentionally keep the guide as html since they can keep track of who is reading the article as some of the images will need to be downloaded from their server therby ip adress is logged each time. Even if you save the html on your drive some images will not i bet be saved they will be the tagged images.
Hop this helps even a little