Privacy & YOU

[girlgeek]

Not surprising that LJ is included in the list.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/facebook-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/

Comments

[littlearson]

Don't click on ads?
I use ad-blocker with firefox and I never see any ads in the first place.

[girlgeek]

On LJ I have a permanent account so I never see them either. But at some point or another, they added in code that sometimes makes it when you click on a link it briefly redirects you somewhere else. There was a big kerfuffle a couple months back cause when they implemented, they obvs didn't test it very well and it broke a whole lot of somethings. The people were not happy.

Facebook in particular uses all your information to send to various places even if you never actually click on the ads. :(

Hell, I have a hard time picturing how per-click advertising gets anyone money at all as I never click them either. Unless it's by accident.

[faith_girl222]

i finally figured out how per-click ads work the other day. it must be mostly older/internet illiterate people - i learned this when my mom said she thought that clicking on the ad offering her something she didn't want was "how to say no" and "make it go away". add that to people who click on accident, or whose pets/small children temporarily commandeer the keyboard and i can see how they get clicks and thus money.

what i still can't figure out is how it's actually a useful marketing strategy.