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Sex, drugs, violence, hate speech, conspiracy theories and blunt talk about suicide rarely are more than a few clicks away. Even when children are viewing benign content, they face aggressive forms of data collection that allow tech companies to gather the names, locations and interests of young users.
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I am open to being corrected if I am wrong, but doesn't this part of the piece totally misunderstand how online advertising works? Can this expert be that clueless not to know that ads come from browser history? That he got an Ashley Madison ad while visiting a children's site because his browsing history indicated he might be interested? That's how it works for me, for sure. I.E. if I spend some time looking to buy shoes on Poshmark, then like for the next couple of days, on news websites, all I see is shoe ads:
My point: children visiting that site would see ads reflecting the recent browser history on that device and browser. And you can eliminate that in various ways such as by clearing the browser history or not accepting cookies.
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 4:58pm
Interesting comment. I can't give an authoritative answer but ads are not solely based on browser history. I don't know all the ways ads are placed nor what percentage are placed in the different ways. But even if the adult using the computer created a browser history that indicates receptivity to adult ads they still theoretically aren't supposed to be placed on children programming.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 4:57pm