I had a pretty embarrassing meeting after opening a blog in Safari plastered with lingerie ads during a presentation. Near as I can tell, my wife opened mail from them in GMail and that was enough association to serve the ad.
So, who is to blame? The ad service for serving something inappropriate, my browser for having a bad default privacy setting, or myself for not changing the privacy setting and lending my wife the laptop to check her email?
No more 3rd party cookies for me. It's rather shameful that these ad networks have seen fit to work around a sensible default. It's worth a mention that this isn't new - flash cookies have been a workaround for ages.
Would you prefer they had absolutely no knowledge about you, and they just randomly showed you lingerie ads? Because that's going to happen in a future where the ad networks can't track the user at all anymore. Totally random ads.
I think what most people would prefer is that faceless ad companies not have a list of all the porn sites they've visited along with whatever real world info they could gather on me sitting in plaintext on some unpatched server in Cutrateistan.
I'm pretty sure you want that too but please continue with this utopian straw man about how this is only about better ads.
So, who is to blame? The ad service for serving something inappropriate, my browser for having a bad default privacy setting, or myself for not changing the privacy setting and lending my wife the laptop to check her email?
No more 3rd party cookies for me. It's rather shameful that these ad networks have seen fit to work around a sensible default. It's worth a mention that this isn't new - flash cookies have been a workaround for ages.