The red pants that I rejected
Episode 24
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Audio file
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September 23rd, 2016
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1 hr 1 min
How does online tracking and advertising work?
- Popping the publishing bubble: A great overview about what the iOS 9 ad blockers mean for online advertising (Stratechery)
- Data collection by loyalty programs (Choice)
- How supermarkets get your data & what they do with it (The Guardian)
- Online tracking systems, how do they work (NewFangled)
- Tracking the trackers: What are cookies? An introduction to web tracking (The Guardian)
- Online tracking: If they are watching, should you watch too? (NewFangled)
- A large tracking investigation (The Wall Street Journal)
- Don't track us (Duck Duck Go)
- I'm being followed: How Google, & 104 other companies, are tracking me on the web (The Atlantic)
- Facebook isn't free - it has made you its product (Computerworld)
- The decline of newspapers (Wikipedia)
- The Age
- The Herald Sun
- Newspaper Death Watch
- The future of print: Newspapers struggle to survive in the age of technology (Harvard Political Review)
- Newspapers' ongoing search for subscription revenue: From paywalls to micropayments (The Conversation)
- The data are in: Newspapers aren’t going to get enough digital subscribers (Mumbrella)
- Apple Pay
- PayPal
- Elon Musk & PayPal (Wikipedia)
- Are micropayments a viable way to support the news business? (The Conversation)
- LaterPay, a German payment infrastructure company, offers micropayments with a twist (NiemanLab)
- Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy (The Conversation)
- Stranger Things (NetFlix)
- Here's how much Apple Music is going to pay artists (Business Insider, Australia)
- Real-time bidding: What the bots run around doing behind the scenes before an ad appears on your screen (Wikipedia)
- Behavioural networks: A quick summary of what happens from cookie collection to the ads you see (Mike On Ads)
- An explanation of cookie matching & real-time bidding (Mike on Ads)
- "An ad exchange is a technology platform that facilitates the buying & selling of media advertising inventory from multiple ad networks" (Wikipedia)
- What is an ad exchange (Marketing Land)
- A discussion about typical cuts made during bidding in online ad exchanges (Quora)
- The DoubleClick ad exchange (Google)
- The Like button (Wikipedia)
- Likejacking: A form of 'clickjacking' where someone hijacks your Likes (Wikipedia)
- Court rules against the use of Facebook's Like button: Shopping site accused of violating German privacy laws (DailyMail, Australia)
- How to stop Facebook from tracking you (Business Insider, Australia)
- Is every browser unique? Results fom the Panopticlick experiment (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Panopticlick: Test your browser's ability to protect you from online tracking...Lucy failed badly (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Wall Street (Wikipedia)
- Pauline Hanson (Wikipedia)
- Safari's ad blocker: "Blocks all annoying ads & supports websites by not blocking unobtrusive ads by default" (Apple)
- A discussion about why we keep seeing targeted ads after we've bought the thing (Quora)
- Targeted ads after I buy something are really annoying (Brad Ideas)
- Loyalty cards help build a profile on you: The store nerds who know everything about you (news.com.au)
- The Woolworths 'rewards' loyalty card (Woolworths)
- Hmm...interesting: The Commonwealth Bank now has a 'loyalty app' where you can conveniently store all your loyalty cards in the one place...close to your bank account details (CommBank)
- How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did (Forbes)
- What is big data? (Forbes)
- 20 facts about big data (Forbes)
- How big data can be useful for businesses (Business.com)
- Why big data is a big deal (Harvard Magazine)
- An example of an Australian data company (Quantium)
- An example of an American data company (Ghostery)
- Kim Dot Com
- Proximity marketing: "The localised wireless distribution of advertising content associated with a particular place"...very 'Minority Report' (Wikipedia)
- Is your smartphone broadcasting your movements when you shop? (Naked Security)
- Convenience or security: You can't have both when it comes to Wi-Fi (TechRepublic)
- At Starbucks, data pours in. But what to do with it? (Advertising Age)
- Is Wi-Fi at Starbucks safe? (Forbes)
- The search engine that doesn't track you (Duck Duck Go)
- Google Maps has been tracking your every move: Google works better because it tracks you...creepy but handy (Junkee)
- Tom Hanks (Wikipedia)
- The most expensive Google AdWords keywords in the US are 'San Antonio car wreck attorney', for USD$670.44 (Quartz)
- The most expensive Google AdWords keywords in Australia include 'Life insurance co.', for AUD$150.30 (The Website Marketing Group)
- The 100 most expensive keywords on Google: Infographic (webpagefx)
- Google has its own ad exchange: Google DoubleClick AdX (Google)
- Google AdWords charges on a pay-per-click basis (Word Stream)
- We use Blubrry to vaguely track our listenership, but it tells us very little (Blubrry)
- Gold 104.3 FM: Play Africa by Toto goddammit! (Gold 104.3)
- Minority Report (Wikipedia)
- Philip K. Dick (Wikipedia)
- Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
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