Title: who r they and how do they know so much? Source:
quantcast URL Source:[None] Published:Apr 20, 2008 Author:quantcast Post Date:2008-04-20 07:28:41 by Itisa1mosttoolate Ping List:*BIG BROTHER*Subscribe to *BIG BROTHER* Keywords:None Views:276 Comments:13
The site below has profiles for people looking/posting on LP. How do they do it and who do they work for?
I know they can see where the articles come from but there is way more data than that.
MY REPLY TO ZEITGEIST: 1John Chapter 2: "21 I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth. 22 Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist." "I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
This site reaches approximately 13,781 U.S. monthly uniques. The site caters to a primarily male, college educated, HH income up to $60k audience.The typical visitor reads newswithviews.com and watches CNBC.
I'm not sure, but I believe that this info being available for such stats may not be so easily stolen from a Linux OS, or from a Firefox or Opera browser.
I use Linux about half the time and I always use Firefox.
Reminds me of the Alexa stats, unreliable.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. Thats what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.' Alan Dershowitz
I'm not sure, but I believe that this info being available for such stats may not be so easily stolen from a Linux OS, or from a Firefox or Opera browser.
Probably has nothing to do with the OS or browser. This is probably done through datamining companies like dataclick just using cookies and toolbars.
If 5 different websites all cooperate with dataclick, each one could contribute pieces of info about a web user. One happens to get the age, another the gender, a 3rd, income, 4th marital status etc. Each is able to read a dataclick cookie and report it to dataclick. They then have a decent profile of a particular user. Combine that with a toolbar and they can then track the sites where this person goes.
That's rough guess of how it could be done. I noted that they admitted to having insufficient stats on 4um. That's probably because most of us either don't use toolbars or are sensitive about our privacy re: cookies and all.
This is probably done through datamining companies like dataclick just using cookies and toolbars.
Never opening an email from anyone you don't know is always a good idea.
Norton's has good internet phishing protection and I have a habit of deleting cookies; especially at work. IM logs are just not a good idea to keep anywhere. Speaking of that, I wish there was an IM with the ability to selectively save logs by person; not just on or off for all.
I'm not sure how good Norton's is in combating datamining. I suppose there's a rating somewhere.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. Thats what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.' Alan Dershowitz
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. Thats what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.' Alan Dershowitz