{"id":215,"date":"2007-10-21T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-10-21T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T19:28:03","slug":"20071021-hellgate-betas-in-game-ads-raise-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/21\/20071021-hellgate-betas-in-game-ads-raise-eyebrows\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/21 Hellgate Beta\u2019s In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no a computer game with more In-Game Ads! article from slashdot.org:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art1\">\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t<span><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/\">Your Rights Online<\/a>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/07\/10\/21\/1623205.shtml\">Hellgate Beta&#8217;s In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EZonk\/\">Zonk<\/a>  \ton Sunday October 21, @02:29PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>use-the-coke-luke<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=158\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicprivacy.gif\" alt=\"Privacy\" title=\"Privacy\" height=\"53\" width=\"71\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tari wins writes <em>&#8220;IGN.com has up a post discussing the new EA\/Flagship game <em>Hellgate: London<\/em>, and the in-game advertisements it includes to facilitate targeted marketing. Though ads in games aren&#8217;t exactly new, some Beta testers are objecting to their apparently off-putting presence. Users have also noted that accepting the game&#8217;s EULA means you submit to <a href=\"http:\/\/ve3d.ign.com\/articles\/news\/34926\/Hellgate-London-Includes-Adware\">the collection of &#8216;technical and related information that identifies your computer<\/a>, including without limitation your Internet Protocol address, operating system, application software and peripheral hardware&#8217;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end (name=yro) --><\/p>\n<p id=\"tagbox-07:10:21:1623205\" class=\"tags\">\n<p id=\"tagbox-title-07:10:21:1623205\" class=\"tagtitleclosed\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/login.pl\"><span class=\"tagsheader\" id=\"toggletags-button-07:10:21:1623205\">[+]<\/span><\/a>  \t\t\t<span class=\"tagname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/tags\/business\">business<\/a><\/span>, \t\t<span class=\"tagname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/tags\/games\">games<\/a><\/span>, \t\t<span class=\"tagname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/tags\/internet\">internet<\/a><\/span>, \t\t<span class=\"tagname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/tags\/privacy\">privacy<\/a><\/span> <em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/faq\/tags.shtml\">tagging beta<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no a computer game with more In-Game Ads! article from slashdot.org: Your Rights Online: Hellgate Beta&#8217;s In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @02:29PM from the use-the-coke-luke dept. ari wins writes &#8220;IGN.com has up a post discussing the new EA\/Flagship game Hellgate: London, and the in-game advertisements it includes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}