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Yeesh... 80 cookies on average for news sites! Down to 60... how many different ways do they need to track one person?

• tim333 8y ago
  At least it shows some decentralised competition! Instead of just Google and Facebook tracking you it's like everyone.
• Uw7yTcf36gTc 8y ago
  each ad network needs to track you separately. so most of those 60 cookies are not sending data to the news site, but rather to the ad network which bids to display the ad to you.
  • ravenstine 8y ago
    There's ad networks, but there's also the plethora of vanity metrics that management likes to collect to fill their charts which they will then use to impress stakeholders, with the hope of getting paid more than the engineers. I could probably make a million dollars selling companies a "customer acquisition score" using phony baloney math if they place my script on their website.