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Of Cookies & Cruises

digital marketing, FaceBook, Google, Julia Angwin, Monarch of the Seas, NCL, Online Privacy, personal data, tracking cookies, Wall Street Journal / By Peter Himler

Anyone who’s ever conducted a Google search has encountered that moment when one, two or seven days later up pops a related product ad in your desktop, laptop or mobile browser’s window. These cookie-enabled ads seem to surface on some of the most random sites. The issue of how online marketers use tracking cookies and […]

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Friday’s Video Views

Got Milk with your Cookie? As the Wall Street Journal looks into the complex and misunderstood world of how marketers track online behavior, here’s a video about that piece of embedded computer code that enables such tracking. It features its inventor. (via @WSJ) Sir Martin While we’re on the subject of The Journal‘s series on