tracking

Do not track depends on the honor system. Far better to block them in the first place. See web browser addons:

On a sunny day (Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:46:31 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

Bill them, Dear Sir, we have evaluated the commercials you send us with the web browser. We find 90% of those suck, 5% are unusable, 3% funny, and the rest could, given the right target audience, make people think about buying -from the competition-.

That will be 600$ ex taxes.

IIRC I played that game with some *** many years ago, they did not pay, but it ended their campaign.

"miso"

Never post here again.

Or this NG will be sabotaged.

Absolutely.

Do what I say or the puppy gets it.

Okay, great! Just do your part to sabotage creative strategies for free enterprise! If it wasn't Amazon, it would just be some other company's ads. You accomplished nothing.

A lot of the other ads are Flash, and I have Flashblock installed, so I don't waste bandwidth displaying them.

I've recently noticed a lot of this too. I'm looking at some part on digikey. An all of a sudden I see adds for it everywhere.

Hmm, how long will it last? If I have to clcik it 50 times every few days then the cure might be worse than the disease.

George H.

I seem to have stopped the Amazon push ads in about two days. Don't know how long that might last.

It's mostly an experiment in testing their algorithm. They likely factor in that I'm a very good customer who is annoyed by their ads.

Try installing the "Ghostery" add-on to firefox- it shows all the tracking stuff- you just won't beleive how much of it there is.

Then install "DoNotTrackMe" add-on.

Is that the $79 AD temperature sensor in the ceramic package? It caught my eye too, but not the way DigiKey would have hoped :-)

There are a lot of sites which ignore the "Do not track me!" header. Compliance is voluntary and is up to the whims (and business rules) of the sites you surf to.

A more "control at your end" approach is to use Firefox features and/or extensions which can control the implanting of "third party" cookies. If you set the browser so that it will not accept cookies associated with certain domains, or cookies which don't match the domain identity of the site you are browsing to, you can inhibit a lot of the cross-domain tracking stuff.

Give 'em what they asked for :-)

When cookies were created, it was unrealistic for a "site" to track individual users.

That is no longer the case. I suspect anyone with serious skin in the game does server side tracking. Turning cookies off does nothing.

To NOT be tracked, you'd need an IP address that changed *often*. Would have to use a different browser each time you visited the site (it is easy to fingerprint browsers; given that ANY IP address you are likely to be assigned comes from a FIXED pool of addresses -- unless you have multiple internet providers -- your browser fingerprint can narrow the possibilities down to "you or that other family"). Couldn't click on any links as most browsers fill in the "referrer" field (i.e., have to cut and paste URLs -- and *hope* the URLs haven't been "formulated JUST FOR YOU... to distinguish them from other folks visiting the same page!)

Similarly, any JS on the page reveals your presence to whichever site (domain) is serving up that JS.

And, of course, the more you do these things to *hide*, the more uniquely you identify yourself!! :>

"Ah, this must be that guy who likes to click on 50 things!"

I don't get it. What good can it be to shove the same ad into my face over and over again. Once I've searched the web for something, I know what's around. There is no point in going on. The only effect is that it gets me irritated. I'm *less* likely to buy a product that's a source of irritation.

Jeroen Belleman

I don't get it. What good can it be to shove the same ad into my face over and over again. Once I've searched the web for something, I know what's around. There is no point in going on. The only effect is that it gets me irritated. I'm *less* likely to buy a product that's a source of irritation.

Jeroen Belleman

You are missing the point of advertising! :>

People don't act on an ad on first exposure. Depending on the subject, it can take *many* exposures for the ad to "sink in". Witness political ads! Jeez, how many times IN AN HOUR can you re-run that SAME AD???

Also, the fact that an ad irritates you means you noticed it. Did you notice the other ads that didn't irritate you? :<

The psychology that goes into advertising -- and the research behind it -- is absolutely amazing! And, if you read any of it, you would SWEAR that you can;t be manipulated by the techniques that they use.

Yet, you *are*! ("everyone" thinks they aren't -- yet the techniques are working so *someone* is mistaken in their self-assessment! :> )

And, the folks who *use* these techniques don't have to understand why they work. Just that "doing X" gives you "Y more sales". (Moving through a supermarket in a counterclockwise fashion, IIRC, results in more purchases. Why??? Shoppers won't purchase the $10 coffee -- but they *will* buy the $6 -- $6 for a cup of coffee??? $1000/year to watch TV???)

Mindless masses.

Piss off Phil. The newsgroup is not your personal kingdom and you don't get to decide who can and can't post.

Why do they keep showing me, everywhere I go, the LC meter that I decided not to buy? Do they think that will change my mind? If I transfer enough click payments to The Drudge Report, I can apparently change their mind.

Everybody join in! Let's cost them some serious money.

I get a kick out of the Advertisements of stuff you already had brought.

Cheers

"This is the guy that cost us a buck in pay-per-click for no result"