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This looks interesting. I personally think the anti-tracking brouhaha is overblown and don't mind if "corporations" send me fewer irrelevant ads thanks to track
by rattray 11y ago
This looks interesting. I personally think the anti-tracking brouhaha is overblown and don't mind if "corporations" send me fewer irrelevant ads thanks to tracking. But for those militantly opposed, this seems like a clever way to fight back.
- alkonaut 11y agoWhat happens is first you get "relevant ads". Then you get a different price of the book on Amazon than I do, because you discussed buying it in a "private" chat on FB with a friend. Next you visit an airline website and you get a higher fare becuase of the knowledge that you have already booked a hotel in that city so they know what day you have to travel. What part of that do you believe is already here, and what part is dystopian future? I'm against the whole idea of information as a commodity, and the ad business today is just that: it's customer information as a bulk commodity. I don't mind being shown ads I just don't want my information collected and used. You could argue that website owners actually give me something (the content) and want something in return (a payment or an ad impression), but I disagree with how the transaction takes place without my knowledge. Just use static image ads served from your domain, then my browser can't know it's an ad. It will be a "dumb" ad, but those have worked in magazines and bus stops since forever.
- commentzorro 11y agoI hear you. You click on an ad because you might be interested in a trip and now you're penalized all over the web because you actually showed some interest in an ad?!
- alkonaut 11y agoWorse, you'll be penalized because your mom clicked an ad, and they know you are related, for example.