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Old Jan 28, 2013, 5:04 pm
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Originally Posted by DeltaFan4Now
Certainly I inderstand the value in that, but why did they need to transfer it from Delta.com to the customer's computer? Couldn't all of that be handled opaquely from the delta.com side? Incompetent programming or something important but less obvious?
Maybe your browser gets the info from Delta, and forwards it to the sites that generate the ads that dl.dumb shows you, so they can select which ad.
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