Most Internet users do not know that every step they make on the Internet is likely tracked by one or multiple companies. Tracking can be loosely divided into a first party and third party group. First party tracking is usually connected to the generation of visitor statistics, and less about the individual user. Third party [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Uncategorized

I have to admit that I’m not a LinkedIn user. I probably should have an account with my Internet business and all, but then again, it feels to me like yet another network that I have to spend time on. So, no LinkedIn for me. I recently stumbled upon a story over at Connection Agent. [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, discussed how and who Google now needs to compete against and it’s clear that the foundation of the company, search, is still its main focus going forward. In the interview, Schmidt described Microsoft’s search engine as their main competitor, [...]

Categories: Apple, Google, Microsoft

An ad server is a server that is being used to manage the advertising scripts that are displayed on a website. Most websites and blogs display advertisement on their webpages. Some to cover the hosting costs, others to support their lifestyle or as the sole income source. Every advertising company runs an ad server and [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

I sometimes get asked about my workday. Many people I have been talking to about the workday assume that it is an easy peasy job which basically centers around researching topics to write about and writing articles afterwards, preferably in a very nice environment such as a garden or beach condo. I usually manage to [...]

Categories: Web Development

Ghacks has been using the same Internet advertising providers since the creation of the website. This has changed in the last few months were we replaced a few advertisers to test new advertising schemes. One area that has changed was intext advertising. Intext advertising refers to those double-lined links that you see occasionally on the [...]

Categories: Revenue Sources

I didn’t have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but while working on a site today I ran into a problem. There is an ad at the top of the design which tends [...]

Categories: Revenue Sources, Web Development

There are many forms of Internet advertising that you encounter. One that has raised privacy concerns in the past is the so called behavioral targeting that is being used to track and analyze user behavior to display relevant ads to them. Many users feel that this is a invasion of their privacy and want to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security, The Web

Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google, ie, Security