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How is it not technical? You have to understand statistics, ad networks, etc. plus all the stuff that can be used to identify you online, cookies, e-tags, brow
by mattmanser 10y ago
How is it not technical?
You have to understand statistics, ad networks, etc. plus all the stuff that can be used to identify you online, cookies, e-tags, browser storage, browser property sniffing, etc. plus how all that works in regard to domains and sub-domains, what's accessible cross-domains, etc.
The parent is alluding to that while all that ad clicking might obfuscate your reception to ads, it might have the downside of making it extremely easy to distinctly recognise your browsing habits and let every ad network uniquely identify you and link it to other data they have on you.
- falcolas 10y agoBy allowing their ads (and thus their software) on the web page in the first place, you've already provided all of that data to them. The click doesn't really provide any further, useful data.