Disneyland website terms of use
Crazy. Is all I can say about the terms I had to agree to in order to buy Disneyland tickets on the Disney website. How and why should it reference stock quote information in the terms when I want to…
Meganet Security Company running Google ads on homepage?
Here’s a head-scratcher. Meganet, the company that makes the portable system that can intercept phone calls (only to be sold to law enforcement in the US, mind you), has on their homepage code that could take over the page entirely…
eBay Sets Itself Up…
While this is good press for AppNexus, I have no idea why eBay would participate in this article: For example, say a man just searched for golf clubs on eBay (which has been testing a system from a company called…
From the Archives: “10 consumers a day opt out”
I was digging in the old archives from when I was an analyst at Jupiter (1999 to 2003). Amazing stuff. Think back. It was August 17, 1999, the Jupiter Online Advertising Forum, and the keynote was Kevin O’Connor of Doubleclick….
Behavioral targeting on the Privacy article
Just a funny observation when reading this good Newsweek article about privacy, is that there are a lot of behavioral targeting pixels getting fired on that self-same page, including AudienceScience, Quantcast, and Doubleclick. Such is the world we live in:…