{"id":2502,"date":"2009-03-11T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2009\/03\/google_ad_prefe\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:53:13","slug":"google_ad_prefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/google_ad_prefe\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Ad Preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the big question: is Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/mar\/11\/googlethemedia-google\">new advertising initiative<\/a> actually as bad as Phorm? Sir Tim Berners-Lee <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7936625.stm\">doesn&#8217;t like it<\/a>, and neither do I.<br \/>\nDo I really have to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ads\/preferences\">this site<\/a> from every browser I use to opt out?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not something I appreciate.<br \/>\nThis site is also worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkadvertising.org\/managing\/opt_out.asp\">visiting<\/a>.<br \/>\nI understand how advertising works and how it supports many of the sites I visit and use. But I prefer to see adverts on the basis of where I visit rather than on the basis of where I&#8217;ve been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the big question: is Google&#8217;s new advertising initiative actually as bad as Phorm? Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn&#8217;t like it, and neither do I. Do I really have to visit this site from every browser I use to opt out? That&#8217;s not something I appreciate. This site is also worth visiting. I understand how advertising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}