For all his paranoia about people spying on what you do, drudgeport.com has an incredible amount of tracking going on.<\/p>\n
Back when I was running FindAnISP.com, I actually bought advertising on his website as a test. The company handling his ads back then was careless and\/or naive. After I paid for “x” thousand ads, they pointed their ad server to pick up the ad from my web server rather than copying my banner ad to their server. <\/p>\n
What that meant is I saw in real time who visits Drudge’s server – in theory, I could easy have swapped out my ad and replaced it with something unexpected. The main thing I learned was probably 2\/3 of those Drudge stats are 304 errors. His page autorefreshes the page every 3 minutes. A very large portion of the ad views I was paying for were computers sitting in a newsroom at 3 in the morning just autorefreshing my ad every 3 minutes and charging me again. I was not a happy camper and did not renew my campaign.<\/p>\n
So I’ve used Firebug before to itemize all of the tracking crap that happens when you use some players like uStream…….. who gets told that you visited Drudge?<\/p>\n
– adtechus.com
\n– rubiconproject.com
\n– fastclick.com
\n– atdmt.com
\n– voicefive.com
\n– quantserve.com
\n– scorecardresearch.com
\n– timserve.com
\n– intermarkets.net
\n– doubleclick.net
\n– yimg.com (Yahoo image)
\n– 2mdn.net
\n– advertising.com
\n– adshuffle.com
\n– brilig.com
\n– lucidmedia.com
\n– eproof.com
\n– googleapis.com
\n– truste.com
\n– mookie1.com
\n– doubleverify.com<\/p>\n
A total of 131 server exchanges (and that doesn’t see the Ajax stuff it may also be doing)<\/p>\n
Drudge is also starting to creep me out a bit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For all his paranoia about people spying on what you do, drudgeport.com has an incredible amount of tracking going on. Back when I was running FindAnISP.com, I actually bought advertising on his website as a test. The company handling his … Continue reading