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Ad serves up an image hosted by the advertiser. Phone makes an http get for the image and gives out its IP. You can also target ads by geography and do a lat/l
by prepend 3y ago
Ad serves up an image hosted by the advertiser. Phone makes an http get for the image and gives out its IP.
You can also target ads by geography and do a lat/long box over your target area and show a specific ad so you know how many unique users are in that area.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> so you know how many unique users are in that area would you like to know more? see also: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27862533 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27862533 Baryshnikov & Ghrist, Target Enumeration Via Euler Characteristic Integrals (2009) > We solve the problem of counting the total number of observable targets (e.g., persons, vehicles, landmarks) in a region using local counts performed by a network of sensors, each of which measures the number of targets nearby but neither their identities nor any positional information. We formulate and solve several such problems based on the types of sensors and mobility of the targets.
- eastbound 3y agoGiving up the IP is against the GDPR.
- victorbjorklund 3y agothis about US not EU
- iamacyborg 3y agoThat hasn’t stopped RTB (real time bidding) mechanisms from leaking personal data to hundred/thousands of third parties yet.
- fsociety 3y agoSad but true. And many of those third parties, even security-oriented ones, care more about profits than privacy.
- KTibow 3y agoAll network requests give out your IP.
- karaterobot 3y agoFYI, the Pentagon is a metonym for the Department of Defense of the United States, and GDPR is EU legislation.
- weberer 3y agoGDPR just politely requests that companies don't use this data. Do you think the alphabet agencies are actually going to comply?
- prepend 3y agoHow would the server return the data to the client without an IP address?