[Info-vax] Now that's targeted advertising!

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <maegkf$ii1$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2015-01-29 23:37:06 +0000, David Froble said:
> 
>> Jojimbo wrote:
>>> Browsing my local newspaper site and guess what ad Amazon displayed? 
>>> Vms internals and data structures!  This internet thing is getting more 
>>> creepy all the time. Jim
>> 
>> I haven't actually researched it, just observed.  When I look at a 
>> product, perhaps on selected web sites, I believe that something is 
>> stored on my computer, possibly a "cookie", and in future use of a 
>> browser, ads for that product appear.
> 
> Cookies?  Stored locally?   You're a few years behind.  
> <https://panopticlick.eff.org>   More recently, Verizon Wireless and 
> AT&T tagged all of of your device web traffic with a unique identity, 
> and that identity was made available to every web site you visited.
> 
>> An interesting idea, putting in front of you things in which you've 
>> showed a prior interest.
> 
> Ayup.  That's how Google monitized their efforts with search.

And just how does that work?  I have never bought a single product based
on an ad from Google.  I can't even tell you any of the ads that have
been presented in the past week.

> 
>> Some might consider this "intrusive".  I'm still rather neutral about 
>> it.  Just because it's on the screen doesn't mean I have to read it.
> 
> It's not intrusive right up until Target announces you're pregnant, or 
> some other faux pas.
> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/> 
 
Hey, facebook figured out when my birthday was without my ever telling them.
I would be really upset, if I gave a damn at all.  :-)

bill 
 

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