Giantbomb is in bed with Doubleclick and Quantserve?

I don't know how notorious Quantserve is, but I for one don't like Doubleclick at all.  

Wouldn't surprise me too much I guess. I mean.. no ads ever? I really wonder how Giantbomb gets enough funding to run the site, host all the video and images and content, and somehow they get paid (I imagine pretty well) by whiskey media? Dream job to be sure. but very curious.

Really? If so, I still don't give a crap. Jeff can know where I live and thumb through my mail for all I care.

I just use a hosts file, blocks every thing from even reaching my computer.

They can find out where I went after visting GB? Oh crap.

Running CCleaner atm......

The real question...Why do I care if people know what webpages I'm looking at?

I'm guessing Quantserve is related to Quantcast, who measure their traffic statistics. As for doubleclick, I dunno.

It hasn't affected my time on GB so far so I'm cool with it.

Really don't care. Well, maybe it's because I'm not afraid of them looking at my nonexistent porn collection. I also don't think that GB had much of a hand in this, or is getting money from it. Like Jeff said earlier, when advertisements do come, they aren't going to be subliminal; you'll know what they are. Lastly, on the front page it says "help GB through an ad-free E3".

I really don't give a shit about this. I love that this site is ad-free, it makes it so much better.

I don't give a shit about ads as long as they aren't intrusive like on GameSpot.

I know that one of the tag lines during Giant Bomb @ E3 is 'Support Giant Bomb during an ad-free E3' which I don't really understand. Giant Bomb should have banner ads, I've got nothing against them. And of course for those that do Giant Bomb should offer some kind of premium access (like gamespot total access) that removes the ads for a small fee.

I, uh... I don't care.

Ehhh is this not just so that advertisers can look at what kind of audience is on the site so that they can decide if starting an advertisement campaign on it will be worth it? Are there sites that do not do this?

Did you know that the average Giant Bomb users is 165 times more likely to visit Kotaku compared to the average internet user?

Also a lot of people like fightersgeneration.com apparently.

Isnt this covered in http://www.giantbomb.com/privacy/ under Advertisers' Cookies section? However I am unaware of how unscrupulous this advertise technology may be so thanks for the heads up anyway. I have nothing to hide but that doesnt give the right for certain companies to see what I am doing, thats how I see it. I also dont feel the GiantBomb admins dont mean to harm us in anyway.

On a kinda unrelated note there is an opt-out cookie by Google to op-out of their advertisement scheme. Link here

yay?

I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend of a German baker who works down the street from the Giant Bomb offices that Giant Bomb was actually caught in some compromising positions with Keith David, Oprah Winfrey, a Buick, thirteen jalepenos, Aunt Jamima, and the entire Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  Scandalous!

i look at lolcats all day long when im not using giantbomb. What kind of market can they squeeze me into?

cookies are pretty harmless if you ask me.

So if  Giantbomb were to eventually advertise something, it'd advertise tranny porn and hentai.

I have a little over a TB and still don't care if they look at it.  That being said, it is pretty easy to protect yourself.

I'm a NoScript -user and feel sometimes bad about it. Especially on sites like this who probably need all those ads. :|

I, for one, would like to know what sideshow mel thinks about all this.

Mayber it's just me, but I thought the site actually makes its business policy fairly clearly if you just look for it, just click the bit that says advertise at the bottom of the site. I prefer the site's advertising this way, and actually find the quantcast stats pretty interesting; however I do understand the fear of privacy abuses, but just check the privacy policies to see what they are aren't allowed to do with your data. It's not like the government are keeping tabs on you to arrest you for buying copies of the anarchist's cookbook and the communist manifesto of Amazon (if it was I'd have been arrested)

For what it's worth, we use Google to serve ads when we serve them.  They acquired DoubleClick a while back.  I'm sure Google has integrated some of DoubleClick's technology into their ad platform, which I assume is why you're seeing DoubleClick cookies when you go to our site.  I'd imagine (although I haven't looked to be 100% certain) that doing any search on google.com would also leave a DoubleClick cookie.

Well i suppose they need to make money SOMEHOW, i just assumed that jeff was selling off all his old games, which could earn them billions. Apparently thats not it.

Dont worry, GB isnt going to use any private information for evil

sure, it feels kind of dirty but, whatever I don't care........ my heart belongs to giantbomb

I'm not being harmed by anything so I don't have a problem with it. And if they want to put ads on the site I'm cool with them as long as they don't get in the way or make noises.