Some people are just clueless, and cluelessness leads to paranoia, and paranoia leads to reading comprehension problems. In nice short words, this is how it works. (And I'm not even an admin, I'm just a non clueless user.) Renerosity needs money to run. They don't want to ask us to pay, so they have to get money from somewhere else. They do it by asking people to pay them to put up banner ads. The people running the banner ads have to decide if they are worth paying for. They ask renderosity, "why should we pay you money instead of industry magazine x" Renderosity replies "we have 66000 users, 23000 of which have expressed an interest in your product line, and our ads get clicked on x many times ..." And the person hopefully says, "okay that sounds like a good deal, I'll send you a check and the jpgs for x amount of banner space/time." Now picture the situation where renderosity does not collect any data. "We have approximately 66000 users some of which would logically be interested in your product line," lacks the impact of the earlier statement, don't you think? Taking a few seconds to fill in the marketting form is the price you pay for the free services Renderosity offers. Refusing to fill in the form, just makes it harder for Renderosity to continue to provide those services. Filling in the form will not damage you in any way. Nothing on that form is dangerous or will give blackmailers a "handle" on you. Your email address is not handed out to spammers, and renderosity has repeatedly declared that they do not sell the information. I do not understand why people refuse to help out in this way, and then go around acting as if they are taking the moral high ground.