Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

[catfish1957]

Referenced  to Bloomberg 2 Sep 2018.

(Bloomberg) -- For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/08/30/google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales#gs.rBIr9uo

If there wasn't already a good reason to cut up your MasterCard.  Google does not need any more additional intrusion into our lives.

[truth_seeker]

Scott Adams opined that Big Social/Tech will run the nation.

We are fed what news they decide t feed us. That  shapes our opinions, calling for confirmation news.

We then vote, for government that, in league with Big Social/Tech.

I'm sure "true conservatives" believe themselves to be too smart to fall for it, however.

Sen Cruz sure did give that guy Zucker, a really tough grilling

(Let me say it differently: Jim Demint and Paul Ryan will be very well compensated for not rocking the boat.


 

[Free Vulcan]

This crap is getting straight up scary. Google will be 20 years old tomorrow, and we are to this point of starting to track every thing we do, already. Another 20 years does not look to be a favorable scenario for the average Joe.

[catfish1957]

This crap is getting straight up scary. Google will be 20 years old tomorrow, and we are to this point of starting to track every thing we do, already. Another 20 years does not look to be a favorable scenario for the average Joe.

I am almost sure everyone knows this site, (but just in case)  if you need a search engine without the intrusive google tracking, duck duck go has been my choice. Anyone else know others?

https://duckduckgo.com

[Free Vulcan]

https://www.startpage.com/ is a good one.

[jmyrlefuller]

This crap is getting straight up scary. Google will be 20 years old tomorrow, and we are to this point of starting to track every thing we do, already. Another 20 years does not look to be a favorable scenario for the average Joe.

But that's OK, because they're "private companies" and can do anything they want. /sarc

[Sanguine]

https://www.startpage.com/ is a good one.

I use Startpage - works just fine.

[endicom]

I use Startpage - works just fine.

I've been using DuckDuckGo.

There are alternatives to Google, Facebook and Twitter but it seems that no one complaining about those three will use an alternative. And there's nothing stopping people from using an alternative in addition to those three so I don't know why they don't. If they did add an alternative then they would do their part in building that alternative. I'm thinking mostly of bitching bloggers.

[jmyrlefuller]

I've been using DuckDuckGo.

There are alternatives to Google, Facebook and Twitter but it seems that no one complaining about those three will use an alternative. And there's nothing stopping people from using an alternative in addition to those three so I don't know why they don't. If they did add an alternative then they would do their part in building that alternative. I'm thinking mostly of bitching bloggers.

There are plenty of other search engines out there. They all crawl the same Web.

Social media is not as easily replaced. Everyone's on Facebook because everyone's on Facebook. No competitor right now can replicate that experience. That's why it's a problem.