Talk:DoubleClick/Archives/2012

Means to spread spyware?
 a few recent articles accuse Doubleclick as being a medium to spread spyware. Does this merit inclusion in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.118.117.141 (talk) 18:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Contradiction about founding date
The article introduction says that DoubleClick was founded in 1996, while the History section says 1995. -Pgan002 23:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Ungrammatical and unintelligible sentence
"In order to create profiles non-personally identifiable information such as IP address, domain, browser, operating system, local time and date, page viewed are collected."
 * What is the subject of the sentence? Please re-word the sentence to make this unambiguous.  Use the order: subject-verb-object. -Pgan002 23:59, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Paypal uses doubleclick site?
Hi, I'm Bert, sorry for not signin. 2 points:

https://paypalssl.doubleclick.net (Could not produce the URI of the linking page, sorry, was a SSL payment).
 * About DoubleClick: when I had to pay yesterday with Paypal, I had to enable navigation to this URI to go on:

I dunno if this fact points to some evidence of liaison between Doubleclick and Paypal, who in turn, if I remember right, might be linked to Google. So this could be something that require investigation and confirmation. Maybe if 2click is not moving toward web space rent service, it is goin' towards integration with paypal. Must we find some nfo? IMHO this could also trace Doubleclick starting to move towards Google orbit... as stated into the article.
 * Security writer and programmer Steve Gibson addresses this issue in his weekly podcast of 4 Oct 07: "See, the idea is, all they have to do, if PayPal sends his browser to them and with PayPal's website in the URL tail, that allows DoubleClick to receive the link, to find out where it came from, play first-party cookie games with the browser, and then redirect the user back to the data in the URL tail, which will cause the browser to download from PayPal, but having made a little quick visit through DoubleClick in the process, which is really annoying. Anyway, we don't know that for sure yet, folks.  It'll be top of the errata list in next week's Security Now!."  (Licensed under CCL 2.5) Indicating, as you suspected, that PayPal is cooperating with DoubleClick to leak some users' information. Gibson said that he would investigate and report in his next podcast on 11 Oct.


 * The page for transcripts of Gibson's weekly podcasts is Security Now! Hope this helps! Regards, Unimaginative Username 04:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

IMHO this page it's useful even if poor, and need not to be deleted. My opinion is that wiki (not necessary wikipedia) must show the activity of private organization that are privacy doubt
 * on this article life

Hi and tanks for reading

151.25.133.79 05:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC) (unsigned from Bert)

Ambiguous
"DoubleClick is a company that develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Its clients include agencies, marketers (Universal McCann Interactive, AKQA etc.) and publishers who service customers like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oreal, Palm, Inc., Visa USA, Nike, Carlsberg among others." I do not understand what "...who service ..." means. Please explain. --KushalClick me! write to me 03:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * my guess is that "service" is being used as a verb. Thus, some of Doubleclick's clients "provide services" to customers like MSFT, GM, etc. That said, listing the clients of doubleclick's clients isn't probably necessary. Overall, the passage you excerpt sounds like marketing fluff. -- Zim Zala Bim talk  03:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm thinking the same thing, I am considering removing the company names. Squishycube 12:41, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Look, this is actually a fairly easy process. A publisher like Ziff Davis or McMillan uses a DCLK product to dynamic rotate ads on their sites. The sell that ad space to advertisers such as those listed (that's the service) and put their ads in rotation on the publishers site. Alos, the list of company's, although helpful, may not be appropriate. 69.112.29.153 (talk) 03:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Reference unusable
The adage.com reference page requires a login to access anything at all, and a PAID login to view the whole article. (A) Is there any way to flag this so people know they won't be able to read that page, and (B) is there any non-payfor reference that carries the same information?
 * Try mediawiredaily.com, foliomag.com 69.112.29.153 (talk) 03:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Rosuav (not logged in) 124.168.116.114 (talk) 22:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * This doesn't make the reference unusable. Offline references are perfectly acceptable, if they are RS and Advertising Age is an RS.  You could to a library that carries back issues.  It's not like the claim is extraordinary.--Elvey (talk) 01:23, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Google bought DoubleClick
Just wanted to add that in there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.135.180 (talk) 02:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The DoubleClick Tracking Cookie
Many advertisements displayed on websites lead to DoubleClick.net. DoubleClick gives your computer a tracking cookie, which you wouldn't want. I have heard of other tracking sites like AdMarketPlace.net, WebTrends.net, and AdPalace.net. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.34.25.4 (talk) 01:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Google bought DoubleClick
Are you sure that Google bought DoubleClick? Google doesn't have any advertisements on it's pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.34.25.4 (talk) 01:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Google does list a press release. -SusanLesch (talk) 03:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Links to Epsilon Interactive site, which is marked as unsafe by WOT
Perhaps just mentioning Epsilon Interactive, but without the suspect link, would be better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.190.133.143 (talk) 22:15, 29 April 2012 (UTC)