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I'm OK with advertising, but not with tracking. The problem for me is that most advertising is served from a host other than that of the publisher, so tracking
by MichaelCrawford 12y ago
I'm OK with advertising, but not with tracking. The problem for me is that most advertising is served from a host other than that of the publisher, so tracking can be done by the ad server.
That is, say HN were to publish AdSense. HN's webmaster would add a small snippet of Javascript, that fetches the ad itself from Google's server. That would enable Google to track me.
I am, for the most part, completely cool with ads that are served from the same IP address as the web page I'm looking at.
- a3n 12y agoLet's say that became a reality, that most ads were served from the site of interest. Wouldn't the site's back end just send data about the client viewing an ad back to the ad vendor? I would think it would be part of their contract. I also have no problem with ads per se, but they aren't just ads anymore, ...