Interesting comment. I can't

ocean-kat — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:57:18 +0000

In reply to I am open to being corrected

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.

I am open to being corrected

artappraiser — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:58:14 +0000

In reply to Sex, drugs, and self-harm: Where 20 years of child online protection law went wrong

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:

One children’s website, roman-numerals.org, featured educational games, cartoon characters in togas and a decidedly adult advertisement along the bottom, a Princeton researcher recently found. In the ad a dark-haired woman in a low-cut dress smiled warmly just above the words “Ashley Madison,” with a link to the online dating service whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.”

Minutes later, on a different children’s math site, another Ashley Madison ad appeared, only this time the woman’s hair was curlier and the dress more revealing.

Delivering the ads on both occasions was Google, the world’s largest digital advertising company, which acknowledged in a statement that the ads violated company policy.

“I was shocked,” said Gunes Acar, the researcher for Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy who discovered the ads. “I definitely was not expecting to find that on a child-directed site.”

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.

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Interesting comment. I can't

I am open to being corrected