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Who is the pretty boy of affiliate networks?
- Jason Baker
CommissionJunction
(26%, 78 Votes) - Lee Griffin
TradeDoubler
(16%, 47 Votes) - James Little
AffiliateFuture
(14%, 41 Votes) - Darren Newmark
LinkShare
(12%, 35 Votes) - Doug:)
Sexy beast
(11%, 33 Votes) - Adam Ross
AffiliateWindow
(11%, 32 Votes) - Mark Walters
AfilliateWindow
(11%, 32 Votes) - Chris Mockford
Buy.at
(9%, 26 Votes) - Tyson Pearcey
Buy.at
(5%, 14 Votes) - Warwick Lambert
Buy.at
(4%, 11 Votes) - Clarke Duncan
PaidOnResults
(3%, 10 Votes) - Giles Parnell
AffiliateFuture
(-22%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 297
Loading ...- Jason Baker
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Google and Doubleclick – scary shit
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
So Google now have access to everything you do on the web…not just search.
To paint the picture:
- go to google and do a search, google drop a cookie on your box, almost forever
- google now track every search you ever do on your pc
- if you login to one of their services they will track your search history almost forever
- whenever you land on a site that has a doubleclick banner on it you get a doubleclick cookie
- doubleclick will now track whenever you come into the network of sites with their banner on, basicaly most of the web
Now google and Doubleclick are together, maybe better just to have one cookie – make life easier?
Doug worried
Popularity: 1% [?]
Yeap, even if you dont use G as your search engine chances are you’ll still show up on one of their systems
Don’t forget do no evil Google also get stats from all those sites running adSense and Google analytics.
Also an ISP
Registrar
Can read all those gmail accounts
Can read all those Google talk conversations
Can read all your documents you store in Google docs
Gets stats from all it’s partners showing AdWords – Ask etc
Knows what sick taste you have in videos via youtube
Gets stats from all those webmasters running the toolbar
Knows what junk you buy when you use google checkout
This is simply not true.
Google takes no information on the websites which you browse, it can only see what you are searching for, which is anonymous anyway!
Please stop infecting the internet with your ignorant ramblings.
Kind regards,
H.C.
Once they have the doubleclick cookie they will know what sites you are looking at
Some more info
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/google-changes-.html
Google keep the personal data for 18 months
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/cookies-expiring-sooner-to-improve.html
Then anonymize it.
After 2 years they will delete the cookie, unless you have been back to Google, which you probably will have been.
People who go two years between Google searches on a given browser will have their old queries de-linked from their new ones. Google users who do not occasionally destroy their cookies will continue to have their entire search history recorded for posterity and potential subpoenas. Google users who sign up for an account and don’t know to UNCLICK the Web History box will have almost all of their Web usage recorded by Google.
You can choose to “delete web history”. My point is that such action will indeed delete your history from the servers it is stored on. But, it will not delete your info from the log files, which are typically archived to tape and stored offline. Confirm with Google if you doubt me.
Doug