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To play devil's advocate, is this any different to what Google is doing at present? Spend a few hours researching, say, hotels in Istanbul, and you'll see the a

To play devil's advocate, is this any different to what Google is doing at present? Spend a few hours researching, say, hotels in Istanbul, and you'll see the ads that appear on Adwords-enabled sites change accordingly.

damian2000 14y ago
Yeah I think its the same idea - the article mentions Google, AOL and Yahoo are doing it already. It happens to me on my own blog, which has a google adsense banner (but if I click on it then I'm violating google's terms of service).
- horsehead 14y ago
  I would say the difference is that, regardless of how it is used or presented, this ultimately links the information to a specific person, not just some generalized IP address.
  - alttab 14y ago
    This, but also Google does it a little differently. Google: What can I do for you? You: I need to do a search on hotels in Austin, TX. Google: Great, here you go. We'll watch your behavior so we can serve better ads and give you better results in the future. You: Thanks google! ------- Facebook: IF you give me all of your information, then you can talk to your friends at my house and I'll record everything for you. You: Uh, I guess thats OK. I need to talk to my friends. Facebook: I'm following you everywhere now.
  - planetguy 14y ago
    For those of us with gmail addresses it's pretty strongly linked to our identity too. Anyone with access to my google history including my email could tell much more about me than my facebook data; for starters they could easily find out my home address. The real issue is that I just trust google more than I trust facebook. Facebook has had a lot of privacy issues in the past, while Google seems to have avoided them. Google is run by adults, facebook is run by children.
    - horsehead 14y ago
      yeah. The thing about google though is that you can just sign out of your google accounts and they dont track you, I believe. Facebook -- nope. We're with you all the time !!!

damian2000 14y ago

Yeah I think its the same idea - the article mentions Google, AOL and Yahoo are doing it already. It happens to me on my own blog, which has a google adsense banner (but if I click on it then I'm violating google's terms of service).

horsehead 14y ago
I would say the difference is that, regardless of how it is used or presented, this ultimately links the information to a specific person, not just some generalized IP address.
- alttab 14y ago
  This, but also Google does it a little differently. Google: What can I do for you? You: I need to do a search on hotels in Austin, TX. Google: Great, here you go. We'll watch your behavior so we can serve better ads and give you better results in the future. You: Thanks google! ------- Facebook: IF you give me all of your information, then you can talk to your friends at my house and I'll record everything for you. You: Uh, I guess thats OK. I need to talk to my friends. Facebook: I'm following you everywhere now.
- planetguy 14y ago
  For those of us with gmail addresses it's pretty strongly linked to our identity too. Anyone with access to my google history including my email could tell much more about me than my facebook data; for starters they could easily find out my home address. The real issue is that I just trust google more than I trust facebook. Facebook has had a lot of privacy issues in the past, while Google seems to have avoided them. Google is run by adults, facebook is run by children.
  - horsehead 14y ago
    yeah. The thing about google though is that you can just sign out of your google accounts and they dont track you, I believe. Facebook -- nope. We're with you all the time !!!