[LINK] Outbrain

[Kim Holburn]

It's just one of those trackers that I block.  News sites these days have twenty or so of these.  I just don't want all these sites to be collecting data about me without asking me and with no apparent way of me opting out.

On 2013/Mar/25, at 12:31 AM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> Outbrain-ing Australia
> 
> By Lucy Clark, 13th March 2013
> <http://www.bandt.com.au/news/digital/outbrain-ing-australia>
> 
> 
> Six months since its launch to the Australian market, Outbrain is turning 
> the monetisation of online publishing upside-down.
> 
> Outbrain is a „content discovery platform‰ for publishers ˆ it provides 
> links to other web content that it believes will interest the reader, 
> enabling publishers to monetise through third-party content.
> 
> Headquartered in New York and established six years ago, Outbrain is just 
> beginning to make a mark in Australia, with major online publishers 
> including The Age, SMH and news.com.au on its books. 
> 
> Outbrain is responsible for those Œrecommended‚ links to other news stories 
> underneath publishers‚ content.

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