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Fair point, I haven't browsed the web without an ad blocker for years. Hopefully, ad networks don't have much of a profile on me. I'd like to keep it that way

Fair point, I haven't browsed the web without an ad blocker for years. Hopefully, ad networks don't have much of a profile on me. I'd like to keep it that way. I feel that keeping a permanent profile on my interests without my consent is wrong, and I take measures against anyone easily building such a profile on me. Wouldn't a good compromise be to deliver ads that are relevant to the content I'm viewing, instead of ads tailored to my profile? Search ads, for example, are quite fine in my book, as long as they match my immediate search history instead of a personal profile secretly built over a long time.

geocar 8y ago
> Hopefully, ad networks don't have much of a profile on me. You can find out: http://bluekai.com/registry http://bluekai.com/registry has a tool that shows you what data BlueKai/Oracle have on you (or any of their third-party branded and unbranded data suppliers). > I'd like to keep it that way. I feel that keeping a permanent profile on my interests without my consent is wrong, and I take measures against anyone easily building such a profile on me. That's why we have (and should have) the GDPR. These cookie countermeasures are annoying for application developers... > Wouldn't a good compromise be to deliver ads that are relevant to the content I'm viewing Yes. These are context-sensitive ads and they're by-far the most common.