On: Is 37 Signals Selling Behavioral Targeting Data?

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This is the author of Ghostery. Sorry if it came off that way that is not my intent. I am not pitching my "free" product.

The difference here is that Media6 Degrees collects your behavioral data ties it with your social graph (your friends) data packages it up and resells it to other ad networks to target you.

Google Analytics data doesn't get sold to 3rd parties nor is it used by AdWords/AdSense to target ads at you (at least that is Google's claim).

Sorry if this came off as an ad, its not.

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I liked it as an ad, it actually made me interested in your product to see what you found using it.

Much better than a website with an about page :)

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Thank you for this. It would be valuable if you could please ask them for their side and follow up with another post explaining if they in the right or wrong.

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It may have to do with the ad network they are founders of- thedeck

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Thought that might be the case but couldn't find it on any other "Deck" ad sites.

Interesting

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How do they tie this to your "social graph"?

[blasdel → brown9-2]

You can insert hidden anchor tags into the DOM and then use an a:visited selector to detect visited URLs.