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> whether they clicked one ad and had 4 sessions since, etc. That's not trivial to do, both from a technical point of view (browsers - rightfully - fight these
by Nextgrid 5y ago
> whether they clicked one ad and had 4 sessions since, etc.
That's not trivial to do, both from a technical point of view (browsers - rightfully - fight these kinds of tracking attempts) but also legal (GDPR mandates that the customer opts into this kind of tracking but they have no incentive to do so).
- tetsusaiga 5y agoYou're right, this is actually a lot harder to recently, with the iOS updates that occurred a year or so ago. It's a space that evolves very quickly. But this is a good place to point out that, yes - there is nuance to all of this - and I didn't really mean to turn it into a thesis on online advertising (lol) so much as to say: It's still easy to be more accurate than "Turn it off and see what happens". Even a semi-sophisticated media buyer is going in with a plan, and some method of measurement.
- m3047 5y agoGDPR doesn't stop me from having ad1.example.com and ad2.example.com landing pages. Aspirationally perhaps, but technically no. I think this is different from fonts.gstatic.com in that it doesn't need to follow people around the internet and it's also not info necessarily going to a third party.