cookies Tag Archive
January 29, 2015
Privacy News of the Week
Verizon Wireless placing ‘supercookies’ on customer devices Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest provider of cell service, is using a unique form of tracking to help advertisers target Verizon customers with ads. And the technology – dubbed a ‘supercookie’ in reference to the cookies that websites place in web browsers to identify unique users – was being […]
December 5, 2012
Who are these tracking companies? Meet AdRoll.
AdRoll is a popular and fast-growing ad network specializing in helping other advertisers (over 5,000 of them) “re-target” you. This means they help bring you ads related to things you’ve shopped for before. Whether you prefer to call them more relevant ads or ads that follow you around, AdRoll is at the cutting edge of […]
October 25, 2012
Who are these tracking companies? Meet KISSmetrics.
KISSmetrics is a web analytics tool that businesses use to measure and analyze their web traffic. While many analytics platforms focus on high-level trends, KISSmetrics specializes in helping companies understand their web visitors on an individual level, or as their website asserts, “Google Analytics tells you what happened; KISSmetrics tells you who did it.” How […]
June 29, 2011
50 cents for your MySpace profile: what will happen to your data now?
Welcome to a world where your online identity, and a lot about your personal life, goes around and around to the highest bidder. If you’re one of the 70 million people who used Myspace.com, your profile now belongs to the targeted advertising network that bought them on June 29, 2011, Specific Media. If you don’t […]
February 10, 2011
Abine to be Microsoft privacy partner on IE9 for “Do Not Track” tracking protection list
We at Abine, Inc., The Online Privacy Company, are happy to announce the availability of our Do Not Track behavioral advertising lists for Microsoft Internet Explorer version 9.0. ”We’re pleased Microsoft is supporting IE users who want to exercise their right to online privacy,“ said Abine co-founder Robert Shavell. ”The level of intensity of spying […]
