I got followed around by a personalized ad today similar to Criteo, Struq, AdSense etc. but unlike the others this didn’t have the little message explaining what it was, and providing an opt out.
I dug a little deeper and discovered it was delivered by teracent.net who Google aquired in 2009
Are Google going to start doing this with AdSense ads too and scrap the AdChoices option?
I would like to know how google using teracent ties in with their privacy policy and Ads Preferences Manager – http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/static.py?hl=en-GB&ts=1631343&page=ts.cs&rd=3&contact=abg_afc
Especially as the opt out on teracent doesn’t appear to do a great deal – http://www.teracent.com/about-us/opt-out/