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Is this a scandal?

• dymk 7y ago
  It's 2019, everything is a scandal
  • dRaBoQ 7y ago
    And everyone is outraged.
• ProAm 7y ago
  No but SO has always prided themselves on reasonable, pro-consumer, safe advertisements. So the fact that SO is allowing this speaks to them a little, its unlikely they know whats happening but it's still a little gross.
• kapep 7y ago
  I don't think it's a scandal. It's not new or surprising that ads use tracking techniques like this. Stack Exchange recently announced [1] that they will use ad networks as an experiment. That announcement was quite unpopular and met with resistance and pleas to allow only static images to avoid annoying ads as well as sophisticated tracking. So this is no scandal since they were open about it and knew the risks. It seems they ignored the community though so they probably lost some trust by the community. I wonder if they will take action and stop the experiment. [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329763/were-testing-advertisements-across-the-network https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329763/were-testing...