(NY Times) Your Online Attention, Bought in an Instant
You can be sold in seconds.
No, wait: make that milliseconds.
The odds are that access to you — or at least the online you — is being bought and sold in less than the blink of an eye. On the Web, powerful algorithms are sizing you up, based on myriad data points: what you Google, the sites you visit, the ads you click. Then, in real time, the chance to show you an ad is auctioned to the highest bidder.
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Posted November 18, 2012 at 11:45 am
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