Advertiser tracking
I’ve been reading in the news lately how Facebook had implemented a tracking program so that more targeted ads could be delivered to their users. They suffered a huge user lashback on that and pulled the tracking program. Gee…we didn’t know that tracking your moves and using them to target advertising would make you mad…riiiight.
Anyhow, I was looking at one of the blogs I read regularly and there was an Amazon.com ad over on the right hand side of the screen. Guess what book it was advertising? Go on…guess! Give up? It’s called “The Roman Ritual vol. 1 Sacraments and Processions”. This book is a little pocket-sized book that has a bunch of prayers in Latin for priests to use for various things like baptisms and blessings and what not. How do I know this? I researched how much one of these little books would cost (on Amazon) two nights ago. Out of curiosity, I refreshed the website, and the next Amazon ad was “The Roman Ritual in Latin And English with Rubrics” which is the same book, with vol.’s 2 and 3 all in one cover. Another refresh produced “The Roman Ritual three volume set”. Another refresh produced some cd/dvd called “Island Roots, vol. 1 by various artists” which might actually have something to do with a post on the site (there was something about Tahiti a couple of posts back).
Looks like Facebook ain’t the only place tracking your movements.
jerome said,
December 4, 2007 @ 5:46 pm
Hell google mail scans yours mail then pops advertising based on key terms in the e-mails. Not that I mind much but sometimes when Mike and I are e-mailing on the KC chief’s and I get an add for some native American store it makes me laugh…..
Marie said,
December 4, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
myspace does it too, it’s very creepy. The Amazon widget actually scans the content of my blog for relevant items, not the visitors. I figure the Island Roots thing had something to do with my pic of half-naked men, or the Aloha Friday carnival I participate in. It also keeps coming up with a single for a Christmas song, it seems to really like that one. I’ve been wondering why that one keeps popping up, I can’t remember ever lauding any Christmas music, although I’m going to soon.
allena said,
December 17, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
I think it’s sort of cool (cringing as the rotten fruit flys towards me) I mean at least the ads are something I am marginally interested in. Not that I don’t really enjoy ads explaining how to make my male organ grow or perform better, but really, I prefer ads that are uh, more in tune with me…