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> That's what the company does that is mistaken, not the technology The technology of low level internet surveillance in order to facilitate advertising? And y
by freshhawk 14y ago
> That's what the company does that is mistaken, not the technology
The technology of low level internet surveillance in order to facilitate advertising? And you wonder why people don't like it?
I worked in advertising for quite a while and no longer do, I understand why you love retargeting and why you are sad to see it go. I'm sure that you were sad to see popup blocking become mainstream as well, popups and popunders had fantastic results. They were more hated but orders of magnitude less evil than 3rd party cookies.
You are expecting people to change their behaviour or preferences and make sacrifices solely in order to be easier to advertise to ... isn't learning never to fall into that trap day one of advertising 101?
Browsers are thinking about what their customers actually want, you are thinking about what makes it most efficient to control those customers ... of course you disagree. And of course you are wrong.
- magic_haze 14y ago> and why you are sad to see it go. not the GP, but I highly doubt it's going to go anywhere. Mozilla's decision is just going to accelerate the arms race into more and more esoteric ways of tracking you... I'd heard about evercookie, but tcp-level analysis was news to me.
- freshhawk 14y agotrue, that type of tracking is too useful, especially now that big players are used to having it. The browser's have the advantage here in both available options and agility so accelerating the arms race is probably a good thing.
- jordo37 14y agoWhat are you referring to when you say 3rd party cookies are evil?