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September 14, 2018
For the past year, Google and Mastercard had a “secret deal” allowing Google tracking of spending habits of two billion Mastercard card-holders. Using Blur can protect you from tracking, online and off. The deal gives Google “an unprecedented asset for measuring retail spending”, as they compete with sites like Amazon. Mastercards were used in roughly […]
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Privacy
December 5, 2012
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 […]
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Privacy
December 2, 2012
Gravity is an internet display advertising network that relies on partnerships with large companies (top 50 websites) to track and serve targeted advertising to users as they browse the web. They’re known for their personalization engine, which targets visitors with content based on the kind of person Gravity thinks they are: their interests, locale, age, […]
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Privacy
December 1, 2012
Dataium collects and analyzes data around online automotive shopping to predict individual consumer behaviors. They are one of the largest aggregators of this kind of personal data, tracking over 20 million automotive shoppers across 10,000 websites every month. How it works: The automotive websites that work with Dataium install code on their site that log […]
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Privacy
November 20, 2012
Meteor Solutions is a social audience marketing (SAM) tool that lets companies identify their biggest fans using social media, engage those fans in conversations, and measure how successful that form of “word of mouth” advertising is for their company by tracking how people share things using social media. How it works: Meteor Solutions’ Tag & […]
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