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I am a strong advocate of privacy—some would say pathologically so. I have no tracking cookies, or any other kind for that matter, on this site. There is advertising, of course—bandwidth isn't free, and my children like to eat. It is primarily text advertising. When it's not, it had better not blink. I sincerely hope that there is a special place in Hell in which disco blares eternally for both the creator of the "blink" tag, and those who produce blinking advertisements.

Nobody "likes" advertising. However, I don't mind it when it's not intrusive. I'll click on it if it interests me, and ignore it otherwise. Blinking at me (or any other annoying behavior, for that matter) makes me less likely to buy the product, rather than more so. I'm one of those people that takes something out of his cart every time some nitwit in the grocery store grabs the microphone to babble about his department while I'm trying to figure out a price.

I will not turn over any data about you to any other party except under court order.

Dr. Hawkins is a statistician, antitrust attorney, and Assistant Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University.

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