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Questions about online advertising (big companies)
Old 08-25-2010, 12:54 AM Questions about online advertising (big companies)
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I would like to find a forum where I can ask about companies such as...

quantcast, admeld, omniture, dealerfusion.com, visualrevenue.com.

This is a purely random selection of entities that are either tracking me or trying to place ads on my browser. I would like to ask a lot of boring technical questions about how this works. This will involve terms like agencies, publishers, ad servers, and other concepts that are not clear to me. Would like to find forums where I can ask newbie questions. Thanks!
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Old 08-26-2010, 10:08 AM Re: Questions about online advertising (big companies)
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PS: I am thinking the people who make bug tracking software like Ghostery might know about this. Any other ideas?
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Old 08-30-2010, 12:06 PM Re: Questions about online advertising (big companies)
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They are not tracking you specifically. You are simply visiting pages where the owners/operators use those companies to provide advertising or visitor statistics.
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Old 08-31-2010, 12:13 PM Re: Questions about online advertising (big companies)
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For people who are interested in how online advertising works, here are some good pages:

What the various companies do...
http://news.ghostery.com/post/948639...mpany-can-wear

A more technical description...
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/0...ment-tracking/

A good high level view...
http://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/..._i_dont_get_it

Please let me know about other resources. Thanks.
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