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  1. Re:Click here to see what they have on you by adisakp · · Score: 1 · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    Unfortunately that link got you to a page on www.citeworld.com which carries a link to www.nytimes.com

    After a wild goose chase I finally got that link ---

    https://aboutthedata.com/

    And that site is down :-(

  2. Re:AboutTheData.com doesn't work in Linux by arobatino · · Score: 1 · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    I've virtually never had to do that. I did find that it's possible to access the site in Linux via https://aboutthedata.com/portal/home/ rather than the top page.

  3. Re:I'm not falling for that! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3 · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    It's not as if it's a trick -- they're very explicit that the purpose of the site is for you to tell them all about yourself so they can sell that info. https://aboutthedata.com/portal begins "Who are you? If you want to get the best advertising delivered to you, based on your actual interests, start here. Tell us who you are so we can show you the information used to fuel many of the marketing offers you receive from advertisers using Acxiom's digital marketing data."

    As for who enjoys ads so much that they want to take time out of their day to do unpaid work for advertising companies... well I can't imagine.

    The question that occurs to me is "Are those assholes at Acxiom good enough to discern 'corrections' that make the data even less accurate than it was, or 'corrections' made to other peoples' profiles?"

    It'll be a cold day in hell before I volunteer better data to scum like them; but I think that polluting the database would be my good deed for the day, probably my good deed for the month if I could automate it.

  4. Re:I'm not falling for that! by Gavagai80 · · Score: 3, Informative · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    It's not as if it's a trick -- they're very explicit that the purpose of the site is for you to tell them all about yourself so they can sell that info. https://aboutthedata.com/portal begins "Who are you? If you want to get the best advertising delivered to you, based on your actual interests, start here. Tell us who you are so we can show you the information used to fuel many of the marketing offers you receive from advertisers using Acxiom's digital marketing data."

    As for who enjoys ads so much that they want to take time out of their day to do unpaid work for advertising companies... well I can't imagine.

  5. Click here to see what they have on you by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Informative · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    TFA says:

    "Data broker Acxiom did something a little unusual this week. It launched a service that lets you see the data they've collected on you"

    Unfortunately that link got you to a page on www.citeworld.com which carries a link to www.nytimes.com

    After a wild goose chase I finally got that link ---

    https://aboutthedata.com/

  6. Give me the link! by bkk_diesel · · Score: 5, Informative · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    I had to click through to a third page before getting a link to the relevant website.

    The Acxiom site is found at https://aboutthedata.com/.

    Privacy policy (FWIW) is here: https://aboutthedata.com/privacy/

  7. Give me the link! by bkk_diesel · · Score: 5, Informative · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    I had to click through to a third page before getting a link to the relevant website.

    The Acxiom site is found at https://aboutthedata.com/.

    Privacy policy (FWIW) is here: https://aboutthedata.com/privacy/

  8. Good job by awshidahak · · Score: 4, Informative · on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do

    Great inclusion of the link to the service, samzenpus. I love how I didn't have to hunt for it at all.