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ragingthunderbolt:

↯ Nick Heer: There Is a Clear Difference

nickheer:

 It isn’t that advertising is bad, or that targeted advertising is wrong. The problem lies with the tracking stuff. Some are fine with it, but I am not. There is a clear difference.

Consider installing Ghostery. If you had, you’d see Marco’s site uses both Google Analytics and Mint to track visitor data. Brooks Report has those, plus Amazon affiliate and Google AdSense. Need I go on?

If you’re really not okay with Google’s evil tracking, considering not reading those sites that uses Google’s evil tracking to gather visitor data for advertisement sponsorship purposes.

I wasn’t aware that Brooks had AdSense installed. That seems rather hypocritical of him.

Amazon affiliate and analytics software isn’t the same, however. Analytics doesn’t pass mined content to the site owner, just things like number of viewers, where they entered from, etc. I’m not a fan of that being passed through Google either, but nearly every site seems to use Google Analytics. There’s only so much one can do.

Amazon affiliate links are entirely different. Once again, no mined content.

(P.S. Contra MG Siegler and everyone else, here seems a conversation that would be better done via a comment thread. So let this be my last word. I’ll get back to razzing Appleistas soon.)

You don’t have comments, so I’ll reply here. Then again, I don’t have comments either, probably for this very reason.

Source: ragingthunderbolt