Despite these promises, the FTC charged that Google placed advertising tracking cookies on consumers' computers, in many cases by circumventing the Safari browser's default cookie-blocking setting.
Because of the particular operation of the Safari browser, that initial temporary cookie opened the door to all cookies from the DoubleClick domain, including the Google advertising tracking cookie that Google had represented would be blocked from Safari browsers.
"Users don't want more advertising or tracking, and Facebook wants to do more of both, "said Jan Dawson, an analyst at Ovum.
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Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.
In other words, GM only came back to the Facebook-advertising fold after several months of wrangling with Facebook executives, with varying intensity, about ways to improve tracking of advertising results on the site and to boost its effectiveness.
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Tumblr is one of a handful of social networks that advertising agency Razorfish is tracking.
Google has previously said the large-scale tracking involving its advertising network was inadvertent.
For if we do go back to a system of not tracking then such advertising companies become simply wholesalers of an undifferentiated good.
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The new tool lets people limit ad tracking or reset the advertising identifier on their devices.
To make the auctions work, advertising companies are racing to place tracking technology on as many websites as possible.
And while tracking service TNS predicts Internet advertising will increase 13.4%, and newspaper advertising will fall 0.9%, publications that cater to Hollywood say they are seeing more dollars than ever.
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Together they give Salesforce a comprehensive social marketing tools arsenal that includes social media monitoring, analysis, tracking, publishing, measuring and advertising.
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau, whose members are responsible for most online tracking, said the bill gave too much discretion to the Federal Trade Commission.
Last month, the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab began tracking the online ad networks that place the most advertising on website that facilitate peer-to-peer sharing of pirated digital content.
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Advertising networks keep coming up with new and sometimes controversial tactics for tracking.
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By placing a tracking cookie on a user's computer, an advertising network can collect information about the user's web-browsing activities and use that information to serve online ads targeted to the user's interests or for other purposes.
Among his suggestions: better methods for tracking drug side effects, substantially less direct-to-consumer advertising, and giving the FDA the legislative authority to force drugmakers to conduct trials that fully examine the risks of their medicines.
The point is that tracking a user through what they do is what adds value to the advertising that is served up to those same users.
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One big obstacle in winning more of that business was Google co-founder Mr. Page, who objected to letting Google's advertising customers work with companies that installed "cookies" on people's computers for purposes of serving ads and tracking their performance.
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As we started tracking this data we discovered something surprising: the majority of ripple effect website failures are caused by online advertising services, whose ads either slow down page load times or, worse, can actually prevent the entire page from loading.
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