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[Anemone of the State]

... you might be interested in this: http://www.ghostery.com/about

[minime]

That actually looks pretty interesting.

[EddyP]

Very cool. Thanks.

[Checker]

Isntalled: OPenX on RDO

[MickAv8r]

Friend of mine just started working for BurstMedia. Can't remember if its js or a pixel but they sell real time bidding on ads. So you load a page from say CNN, as the page is loading Burst opens bidding for an ad on that page. Ad agencies place bids and whoever is highest gets the placement. All happens in a few milliseconds. Its really amazing tech.

[EddyP]

Friend of mine just started working for BurstMedia. Can't remember if its js or a pixel but they sell real time bidding on ads. So you load a page from say CNN, as the page is loading Burst opens bidding for an ad on that page. Ad agencies place bids and whoever is highest gets the placement. All happens in a few milliseconds. Its really amazing tech.

That's amazing. If they don't already, I'm sure there is info sent from cookies on my computer to them that tells them a little about me to help them determine how much they want to spend on the ad.

Creepy by neat.

I used to make predictive models based on all kinds of demographic data on people. It's fun to see generalizations proved right or wrong with data. But it's creepy as hell the kind of data companies have about you.


Funny how half of the content on weather.com disappears now after installing this. That's what the bastages get for **** up their page.

[sfsuphysics]

Friend of mine just started working for BurstMedia. Can't remember if its js or a pixel but they sell real time bidding on ads. So you load a page from say CNN, as the page is loading Burst opens bidding for an ad on that page. Ad agencies place bids and whoever is highest gets the placement. All happens in a few milliseconds. Its really amazing tech.

That's amazing. If they don't already, I'm sure there is info sent from cookies on my computer to them that tells them a little about me to help them determine how much they want to spend on the ad.

Is that why I get all those porn ads pop uP

Either way thanks for the link, I used to manually go through and block various ads that were undesirable but this "Ghost" program is just that much easier.

[Shade of Knucklehead]

Hey, thanks for that.

I installed and it is pretty cool. I also have told firefox to never remember history not to accept cookies from anything. Its irritating to have to type passwords for sites like this one, but there is way less junk being installed in my temp folders this way.

[jasen]

A combination of NoScript, AdBlock+, and Ghostery is rather effective at blocking all things bad. It can get annoying on some sites that won't display any content if ads are blocked (mostly news sites), but the safety is worth it to me.

[Shade of Knucklehead]

what is openx? Its always running on RDO...