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I really wish discussions would better distinguish between tracking, advertising, and camouflaged advertising. I actually like advertising as one avenue of fin
by noizejoy 7y ago
I really wish discussions would better distinguish between tracking, advertising, and camouflaged advertising.
I actually like advertising as one avenue of finding stuff.
I just hate when tracking is bundled with advertising. And I hate when advertising is camouflaged.
In practical terms:
When I’m searching for guitars, I like seeing both: third party results and ads that are not camouflaged.
I also like seeing guitar ads on a guitar related website.
But I hate seeing guitar ads on an unrelated website, just because I looked at a guitar website a few days ago. And I hate when a guitar ad is camouflaged as an independent review.
An advertising company that doesn’t track or camouflage gets my support. And I just hope that StartPage is and remains that kind of company.
- d1zzy 7y ago> I just hate when tracking is bundled with advertising. And I hate when advertising is camouflaged. AFAIK pretty much all customers that pay for internet advertising WANT tracking (a cookie or URL session ID that tracks you from the advertising platform to the advertised site destination) as a way to verify that their money is actually producing results, otherwise they have little way of knowing that.