trackers - scripts, pixels, and other elements

[jacks]

Ghostery says these elements are tracked on Christian Forums. Is this cause for concern?

Adify
Adobe Test and Target
BidSwitch
Connexity
Dotomi
DoubleClick
DoubleVerify
Google Adsense
Google Analytics
Intergral Ad Science
Magnetic
Media Optimizer
MediaMind
NetSeer
OpenX
Platform161
PubMatic
Quantcast
Tribal Fusion
Tribal Fusion Notice
TRUTSTe Notice
ValueClick Media
ValueClick Mediaplex
Veruta
Videology
Zenovia

 

[FreedByte]

Ghostery says these elements are tracked on Christian Forums. Is this cause for concern?

Adify
Adobe Test and Target
BidSwitch
Connexity
Dotomi
DoubleClick
DoubleVerify
Google Adsense
Google Analytics
Intergral Ad Science
Magnetic
Media Optimizer
MediaMind
NetSeer
OpenX
Platform161
PubMatic
Quantcast
Tribal Fusion
Tribal Fusion Notice
TRUTSTe Notice
ValueClick Media
ValueClick Mediaplex
Veruta
Videology
Zenovia

What would be concerning? That CF has these on their website, or that they're blocked?

 

[jacks]

If you block them all you can't log into the web site. The concern would be the use of the information gathered. It was THIS article in Forbes that got me thinking about it.

 

[FreedByte]

If you block them all you can't log into the web site. The concern would be the use of the information gathered. It was THIS article in Forbes that got me thinking about it.

Which ones do you need to unblock to log in?

Also I should mention as a disclaimer that blocking these things probably disables ads which deprives CF of ad revenue.

 

[Forest Wolf]

What are trackbacks? When I first joined here there was an alert on my posts I was making, just below the reply window, that said "already pinged" and then there was a window with a trackback to a christian library.

 

[icarusforde]

Got bored, so here's the breakdown of what each thing is.

Adify - Ads
Adobe Test and Target - Targeting of ads
BidSwitch - Seems to be something to do with ads
Connexity - More ads? Potentially analytics.
Dotomi - Definitely more ads
DoubleClick - Ads.
DoubleVerify - Ads. Something to do with stopping fraudulent sites advertising on CF.
Google Adsense - Ads.
Google Analytics - Site analytics.
Intergral Ad Science - … Ads?
Magnetic - Fairly sure this is also ads. Hard to be sure.
Media Optimizer - Advertizing and analytics, from memory.
MediaMind - Advertising
NetSeer - Ads
OpenX - Ads
Platform161 - Would guess that this was to do with an advert that you were seeing.
PubMatic - Ads?
Quantcast - More ads.
Tribal Fusion - Seems like more ads.
Tribal Fusion Notice - Probably something to do with the last entry.
TRUTSTe Notice - Site security verification. Interesting to know if it passes...
ValueClick Media - Ads.
ValueClick Mediaplex - Ads.
Veruta - Ads? Sales? Something?
Videology - Ads
Zenovia -You guessed it… Ads.

tl;dr, ads.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Good work there!

Ads, ads, ads, thats what AdBlock is for