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chicken
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So I had ablock off at your request for awhile. I don't mind the adds because they are no longer animated (why I deleted them in the frist place.

Then today I saw and interesting looking ad, and actually clicked it. But it didn't take me to a website, instead it asked if I wanted to run a plug in.

That got me thinking. I know that you lose revenue to adblock. I am not opposed at all to seen advertisements. I had no idea what script the add wanted to run, probably just a flash animation, but you never know.

Looking into it deeper, I have found a list of potential trackers on each NS page:

first of all, which one of these must be unblocked for you to get add revenue?

Addroll
Chartbeat
Double Click
Google Analytics
Link Smart
PageFair
Quantcast
Score Card Research Beacon

second, what information are these things gathering from us?
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MLJ
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Even newschoolers has been breeched by the NSA...
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Mr.Bishop
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AdRoll is remarketing. This allows us to market to you around the internet if we ever decide to do it.

Chartbeat is real-time analytics.

DoubleClick is what we use to serve our ads.

Google Analytics is what we use for our in-depth analytics of the site.

LinkSmart is a product used more by the other mags to develop on-site link building between articles.

PageFair is what we use to measure how many people are using AdBlock

Quantcast is 3rd party measurement tools that allows us to prove to advertisers we're not lying and measure up against the competition (www.quantcast.com - compare sites to see how we're doing in the world of skiing)

Score Card Research Beacon - this is a tool made necessary by ComScore, which is the 3rd party traffic measurement tool most popular with gigantic corporate advertisers. It comes with being part of ComScore, and is the only way you can get granted Corporate ad deals.

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chicken
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so in order for ns to get ad revenue, I must allow google to track my online habits, so they can direct targeted ads at me?

I realize that NS is not at all to blame for this, but it's still kind of messed up. I think a lot of people who are using adblock are not using it because they don't like seeing ads, it's because they don't like this breach of privacy.
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chicken
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meh. I just use ghostery in my browser and a couple other packages. I use .tor for some activism related things, but that is more so the government/law enforcement doesn't see it.

It's not the end of the world for me if a company tracks my online activity, but that doesn't mean I am going to let them just straight up do it. It takes like 10 seconds to add ghostery, and it seems to work fairly well.
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eheath
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I'm sure the government is super interested in you lol
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Byron_tha_gr8
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that mindset, that the government will only get "the bad guys", is pretty dumb. Sometimes you can break the internet law and not even know it. Why not try to be as anon as possible? You have nothing to lose, except your freedom if you don't.
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eheath
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I mean you could just not do anything terribly illegal...
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Byron_tha_gr8
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yeah but thats lame
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chicken
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sometimes illegal activities are morally justified. For If someone was going to talk about liberating animals, from a farm or a lab (not that I would ever endorse this), they should use tor.

But that's really off topic. I shouldn't have to use that type of security when I am browsing the web semi-anonymously. If the adds in magazines had little chips in them that tracked where I went, and what else bought, I would tear those pages out of the magazine as soon as I got it. They don't though, so I don't bother to rip them out. If online ads were like magazines, and just showed me ads, then I would not block them. Even if ads just sent the advertisers info that the add had been viewed, with nothing to identify me, I would be ok.
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chicken
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for example*
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eheath
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Wait you break animals out of test facilities?

Oh wait you sit at home with your butt buddy getting drunk on a 6 pack together while you Dutch Rutter to the original starwars.
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Byron_tha_gr8
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4 second vidoe, 20 second ad.

really testing me ns... I thought ads were disabled for 10 seconds and under or some shit?

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chicken
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I guess that's just what NS has decided they want. you can choose to watch ski videos elsewhere if ads bother you. vimeo is great. often the same videos are on vimeo, and it takes way less time to open a new tab and search for it there.

but you literally can't browse the forums without having companies track you, unless you block them out. there is a difference between being inconvenience by ads, and having your privacy violated by them. the picture ads in the forums do not inconvenience me at all, so I would allow them if they were not tracking me.
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Byron_tha_gr8
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or just turn adblock back on
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