Have you ever visited Daily Kos and wondered why an advertisement for the exact same item you were viewing on another site suddenly appeared on their home page? Is it a coincidence that an ad on the site is offering you 20% off at a department store you just visited online?
When you sign up as a member on Daily Kos, is there something in the user agreement I missed? Why is targetmarketingplace.com targeting me with products I just viewed on another site when I visit Daily Kos. I just want to know to what degree my online viewing habits are being monitored.
When you visit certain websites online, without even informing you or asking for your permission, they gives several companies and websites the ability to track your surfing habits. Does Daily Kos do this too? Is this the new frontier in online invasion of privacy.
Visiting their homepage automatically gives the following multiple companies your IP address and tells them you visited the site.
These companies will know WHEN and HOW OFTEN you visit the home page. In theory, they will use this knowledge to show you ads later.
Some websites ask you type your first name, gender, postal code and email address on the homepage, clicking SUBMIT gives your identifiable information to the following companies and they create records uniquely identifiable to you.
Take note, all you did is click SUBMIT, you haven’t even tacitly agreed to the site’s Terms and Conditions yet.
What will these companies do to your data? Your guess is as good as mine.
Here are some of the companies that receive your demographic information whenever you see their banner ads:
adbrite.com
adrevolver.com
advertising.com
doubleclick.net
entk.net
eyereturn.com
googlesyndication.com
offermatica.com
partner2profit.com
NEW: quantserve.com
targetingmarketplace.com
yieldmanager.com
Most, if not all, of these companies LEARN which pages you visit, which matches you viewed, how far you went in communication, everything, while you’re logged in, in what order, and how often — no matter what browser or computer you used.