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Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

superglaze (ZDNet UK) writes "Google is gearing up to launch cookie-based 'interest-based' advertising, which involves monitoring the user's passage across various WebSense partner sites. The idea is to have better-targeted advertising, which is not a million miles away from what Phorm is trying to do — the difference, it seems at first glance, is that Google is being relatively up-front about its intentions."

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  1. Re:evil? by geminidomino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the American populace had one ounce of common sense...

    HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

    Sorry...

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!

    You kill me.

  2. Re:evil? by vishbar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right. I didn't RTFA...bye bye, Karma. :'(

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