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:288 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.
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.
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.