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From their website: > As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile. This is (IMHO)
by ThePhysicist 9y ago
From their website:
> As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
This is (IMHO) a flawed and dangerous view, as by clicking on the ad you provide valuable information to the provider (I.e. that you visited the website on which the ad was embedded) and this information can be used to build a pretty detailed view of your browsing habits. As the largest ad networks have very high coverage on many domains (Google e.g is present on more than 80 % of the top 100k most popular domains) you will give them a wealth of data about you, which IMHO is a privacy nightmare.
- jakobdabo 9y agoIf you are not running an ad blocker they already know you are visiting those sites from the trackers accompanying the ads, now they will also see a click from you which will make their database about your interests become less accurate.
- ThePhysicist 9y agoYes, but one of the points of running an ad blocker is to avoid sending any information about you to third-party trackers, clicking on every ad nullifies this, even when blocking the third-party cookies. And as I said I don't think that it will make their databases less accurate, as it's often easy to separate false clicks from real ones (due to different engagement rates and requests).