The ads are going to be personalized, which at this point seems to be standard practice and necessary for good revenue. This means that, based on other websites you visit which also serve ads, the ad company creates an anonymous profile of your interests, and tries to show you ads you’re more likely to be interested in. This is also called “tracking” of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.
Nope. Screw off.
Google stopped pretending the profiles are anonymous a while ago.
Best case: he has no idea what he’s talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.
Yeah, if he said “tracking is bad but because of the market dominance I have no choice” or whatever I could understand his position. But fuck that.
No, it makes it sound like exactly what it is.
Can we start calling the people who put spyware in their products perverts and peeping toms?
This fucking pervert wants to have corporations spy on us just to make a few bucks off of a site with community generated content.
Anonymous, but we can use it to identify everything about you.