• Google's Founders Shouted At Each Other Over Google's Decision To Become Evil - Then Caved
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[quote]The Wall Street Journal has published the latest in its series of articles designed to freak out people who haven't been paying attention to advertising practices in the past ten years. The series is about "what they know about you" (or something like that) and covers cookies, targeting, tracking, etc. In the latest installment, WSJ reporter Jessica Vascellaro describes an internal document by a DoubleClick executive that was designed to help Google get into the display ad tracking and targeting game. There doesn't seem to have been much of interest in the document (at least nothing that the article mentioned), but Jessica observes that Google's thinking on cookie-based targeting evolved considerably over the years--from "nfw" to "well, everyone else is doing it, so we will, too." Jessica also includes this interesting anecdote about an argument between Larry and Sergey, the latter of whom apparently took more persuading: [indent][i]By late 2008, Google executives were preparing to launch ads targeted at users' interests. But the specifics still remained controversial. Tensions erupted during a meeting with about a dozen executives at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters about 18 months ago when Messrs. Page and Brin shouted at each other over how aggressively Google should move into targeting, according to a person who had knowledge of the meeting. "It was awkward," this person said. "It was like watching your parents fight." Mr. Brin was more reluctant than Mr. Page, this person said. Eventually, he acquiesced and plans for Google to sell ads targeted to people's interests went ahead. Google launched the new advertising product, "interest-based ads" in March 2009. The service, currently available only to a limited group of advertisers, uses cookies to track any time a user visits one of the more than one million sites where Google sells ads[/i][/indent][/quote] [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-brin-and-page-shouted-at-each-other-over-googles-decision-to-become-evil-move-into-ad-targeting-then-brin-caved-2010-8[/url] and on WSJ: [url]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413553851854026.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEADSecondNewsCollection[/url] :tinfoil:
Oh shit
[quote]uses cookies to track any time a user visits one of the more than one million sites where Google sells ads[/quote] Not tracking cookies. Damn them! :argh:
Fox News said tracking cookies are as bad as trojans and I'm inclined to believe them Google is socialist and secret muslims
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;24024882]Fox News said tracking cookies are as bad as trojans and I'm inclined to believe them Google is socialist and secret muslims[/QUOTE] Glenn Beck's take on this: [b]G[/b]ay [b]o[/b]bama [b]o[/b]sama [b]g[/b]uilty (of communism) [b]l[/b]eft-wing!! [b]e[/b]vil
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;24024987]Glenn Beck's take on this: [b]G[/b]ay [b]o[/b]bama [b]o[/b]sama [b]g[/b]uilty (of communism) [b]l[/b]eft-wing!! [b]e[/b]vil[/QUOTE] [b]A[/b]corn [b]d[/b]eath panels [b]s[/b]ocialism [b]e[/b]nd of America [b]n[/b]ot a natural born citizen (Obama) [b]s[/b]ocialism again [b]e[/b]nd of family values
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;24025084][b]A[/b]corn [b]d[/b]eath panels [b]s[/b]ocialism [b]e[/b]nd of America [b]n[/b]ot a natural born citizen (Obama) [b]s[/b]ocialism again [b]e[/b]nd of family values[/QUOTE] [b]G[/b]od-hating [b]M[/b]oney-spending [b]a[/b]nti-Christ [b]i[/b]deologically far left [b]l[/b]iberal
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;24025193][b]G[/b]od-hating [b]M[/b]oney-spending [b]a[/b]nti-Christ [b]l[/b]iberal[/QUOTE] what the fuck is gmal
Google Mail. or as you refer to it as ''gmal''
[B]S[/B]ocialism [B]T[/B]otalitarianism [B]O[/B]ne World Order [B]P[/B]ersecution [B]I[/B]dealogue [B]T[/B]reat to America
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its GMAIL moron
Wonkadonk your avatar is fucking awesome. May I have the original?
Well there goes the last ethically right company. This + Verizon agreement sound it's death knell.
sheeeeeeeeeeeeet!
[QUOTE=thisispain;24025199]what the fuck is gmal[/QUOTE] he meant jamal.
I trusted you google. :frown:
haha people pissed at google for doing something they could do anyway. keeps stats. woah
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;24025547]Wonkadonk your avatar is fucking awesome. May I have the original?[/QUOTE] sure, i gotta find a place to upload it though (3mb lol)
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;24026174]sure, i gotta find a place to upload it though (3mb lol)[/QUOTE] imageshack
So should I be using bing?
[QUOTE=blacksam;24041495]So should I be using bing?[/QUOTE] If you can bing yourself to do it
[QUOTE=Splurgy_A;24041641]If you can bing yourself to do it[/QUOTE] Yahoo!
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;24041307]imageshack[/QUOTE] blam [img]http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6016/sagagan.gif[/img] its a lot easier to see the imperfections in the bigger version, i should get better at adobe after effects :(
It's a bit sad to see how Google uses all the evil practices and all the effort into sneaking some extremely specific adds, targeted to me, which would totally ensure I would buy their stuff, only for me to block every single one of them with Adblock.
:tinfoil: I used to love google...
Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-out with Abine. Fantastic stuff. It blocks tracking cookies, AND allows you to delete them all. I have had many a trojan from bloody tracking cookies and I use AV programs... good riddance. I have, in the news section today, lost most of my respect for google as a company. ):
It's gonna turn into a fight to the death between the Good half and the Evil half of Google.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6BSy0yJIc&feature=player_embedded#![/media] If you don't want to be tracked with the Google DoubleClick tracking cookie then just Opt out [img]http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4819/googleads.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view?sig=ACi0TCjSAetg_TGgjSC_1Hr6ve3YWtRlprPoiDH288jrZiDO2kEFb-oUjjR5P-bJaO1px3vbs-evjKYT9S1kHDYbX6YTTQiOiA&hl=en[/url] You have to download a "Opt-out" plugin for Google Chrome if you want the changes to be permanent. It'll tell you if you want to download it.
Stop it google stop.
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