Flogging mobe ads over summer? Come to us, pleads Facebook Ad giant Facebook's latest wheeze for making dosh out of mobe users is to encourage adland to splash its cash on mobile ads during the summer, claiming that sun-seeking punters are away from their tellies and missing their vital advertising fix. The social network reckons that summer is a "pivotal moment" for mobile ads and …
The company said it now rakes in 30 per cent of its ad revenue from mobiles
Yes because it is easier to accidentally hit an ad on a mobile, thus the site gets charged a click through rate rather than a your ad was briefly shown rate. And this even though the person that accidentally did this left the site instantly.
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"The Social-Media Bubble Is Quietly Deflating: The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads - That sucks"...
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-16/the-social-media-bubble-is-quietly-deflating#r=rss
Agree with the sentiment. But in reality its horsesh*t. Read about the Hulu tracking scandal, ETAGS, Cached Sessions, Flash Cookies... SuperCookies... Still think you've escaped? Then do a unique Bowser Test on all your browsers on all devices (BrowserSpy.dk)... You'll soon realize we're losing the privacy war folks..... /Mozilla = Anti-Business Extremists
It seems NoScript, Adblock, BetterPrivacy, Ref Control, CookieMonster and User Agent Addons for Firefox do a pretty good job of hiding or misreporting the data sent/available during the session.
Basically BrowserSpy.dk reported my IP address, Browser, OS and DNS service correctly and precious little else.
I didn't enable scripts for the page, that would defeat the purpose of having NoScript. The downside of not allowing scripts to run is not knowing which tests rely on javascripting to display results and which tests rely on it to harvest data.
3 questions:
1. If scripts are blocked from running, is that an absolute guarantee that all Add-ons / Plug-ins including 'Flash' across all browsers are effectively disabled, yes or no?
2. The Hulu scandal revived dead zombie cookies using ETAGS / Cached Sessions. If all scripts are disabled are cached sessions also disabled too by default, yes or no?
3. When you ran BrowserSpy.dk with scripts off, how common was your browser reported to be?
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