YouTube is using behavioral targeting to fight anti-Zionism

[MikeWB]

So I'm browsing YT and watching a video about lightbulbs and this is the video that YT is pushing onto me as "featured". WTF do lightbulbs have anything to do with Zionism???



My guess is that they're profiling us all and if you watch videos about Zionism and Israel, they push these pre-screened (by ADL no less) videos onto you to influence you or change your mind:

Watch it here:

That's some messed up stuff if you ask me! Notice the attractive woman with pro-Israel, pro-ZIonism paintings that's on the thumbnail of this video even though this is a video of some trashy-looking guy with ugly tattoos and this woman doesn't appear anywhere in the video. It's all a deception!

Leave him a comment here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6gxjEhHaE


This is just the beginning! Google has something like 90% reach of all of users' browsing habits. Even if you don't go to google.com, they serve advertising on majority sites on the web so they will catch your IP very quickly and then they will datamine your browsing habits across the websites you visit and create profiles for you. Then they can behaviorally target you just like they targeted me above.

Oh, and I wasn't even signed in into YouTube! All it takes is that they put a cookie on your machine and then they can track what you browse.

[thirdeyewise]

WOW, that's crazy!

[MikeWB]

WOW, that's crazy!

I replaced that small pic with a complete YT page pic. You can see that they're targeting me on two spots.

YT recommendations work really well. If you watch a movie on skating, you'll see a ton of good recommendations on skating in the sidebar.

But what the heck does ZIONISM have to do with light bulbs and energy??? Why is YouTube pushing an unrelated video onto me? Why is that video in the "Related videos" section when it has nothing to do with power or lightbulbs?

Clearly, they know my browsing history. They know I watched few anti-Zionism videos.

After you watch this recommended and featured video, you see that this is some kind of a mind control disinfo that they're pushing!

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 8728196431

ADL, YouTube launch partnership to fight video abuse
By MAX SOCOL
 
The Anti-Defamation League announced Sunday its recent expansion into the world of YouTube, the on-line video-sharing site.

The US-based advocacy group has officially partnered with the digital media powerhouse in an effort to combat hate speech and other forms of abuse.

As the largest Web-video hub, YouTube relies primarily on its users to hunt down and delete inappropriate content, or to ban abusive members. While the extent of the ADL's role in that process is not yet known, the organization has already made a place for itself in YouTube's new "Abuse and Safety Center," where users are given advice directly from the ADL on how to confront hate speech.

But hate speech can be more difficult to codify than pornographic or violent content. Many professional entities, including news organizations and media watchdogs like the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), use YouTube to dump raw footage, some of which prominently depicts hate speech from countries around the world. While these groups use the footage for educational or reporting purposes, much of it is provided on YouTube without explanation. It appears to be an open question whether a video of an Iranian professor proclaiming the cartoon Tom and Jerry a Jewish conspiracy would be subject to removal, though uploaded by an organization like MEMRI.

YouTube's community guidelines define hate speech as "content that promotes hatred against members of a protected group" - a religious or ethnic minority, for example - without discussing the question of intent.

It is not clear what role, if any, the ADL will have in reshaping YouTube policy in this regard. As of now, the ADL appears merely to be supplementing YouTube's current abuse-protection measures.

The present system has had mixed results. In just a short search through the site, The Jerusalem Post found a number of anti-Semitic videos, including the suggestion that kashrut laws were a "Jew excise tax," and claims that a Jewish conspiracy led by former US deputy secretary of state Paul Wolfowitz orchestrated the invasion of Iraq.

The ADL could not be reached for comment on the new partnership.

[MikeWB]

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... 349208.htm

March 11, 2009, 5:02PM EST
Behavioral Targeting: Google Pulls Out the Stops
Alarming privacy advocates, the search giant will use stored browsing histories to trigger ads aimed at selling Web surfers things they seem to want

By Robert D. Hof

Google has long resisted the emerging but controversial method of showing ads to Web surfers based on the kinds of sites they've previously visited. The company appears to have gotten over its reservations.

On Mar. 11, Google (GOOG) said it will begin to offer ads using what is known as behavioral targeting, which tailors ads to people's interests and online behavior. "We're looking to make ads even more interesting," says Brad Bender, a Google product management director.

To date, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has eschewed behavioral targeting, citing concerns over its hidden nature. Google's brand of targeting—which it calls interest-based advertising to avoid the negative connotations associated with behavioral targeting—will give users an unusual amount of control over whether and how they're tracked and targeted.

TESTING FOR A 2009 ROLLOUT
Behavioral targeting, used by sites such as Yahoo (YHOO) and the middlemen known as ad networks that broker advertising to most Web sites, uses electronic markers on people's Web browsers called cookies to track what sites people visit. If someone has visited several car sites, for example, General Motors (GM) might want to target an ad to her as she roams the Internet. Or if someone else placed a cell phone in an Amazon.com (AMZN) shopping cart but didn't buy it, he might be shown an ad for that phone on other sites.

Google's targeting involves placing people—or more accurately, the Web browser on their computer, minus personal information—into one or more of 30 broad categories and 600 subcategories, such as baseball fan or luxury car seeker. In the first couple of weeks of the program, still in test mode, 20 to 50 advertisers approved by Google will run ads, though the program will roll out far more widely later this year.

To help advertisers place ads, Google will cull information from its content network—the thousands of sites where the search giant places text and pictorial display ads related to the content of those pages. The vast network ranges from little-known blogs to such large sites as those for Amazon.com, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times. Google will not use data from users' Google searches to target ads.

THE QUEST TO MAKE ADS USEFUL
The moves are aimed at helping Google make greater headway in the $8 billion display ad market, where it has less than a 2% share, virtually all that from its YouTube video site. Unlike search ads, which appear next to search results and therefore indicate overt interest in a topic or products, display ads often are not targeted to people's interests. As a result, to advertisers' increasing dismay, they're often ignored. In the coming years the new approach "has real revenue potential" for Google, says Scott Kessler, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, which like BusinessWeek.com is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP). "It should also have a favorable impact on profit margins." It's unlikely to have a significant impact on Google's revenue this year, however, Kessler says.

Susan Wojkicki, Google's vice-president of product management, outlined the new targeting on the official Google blog on Mar. 11. She said it fits with the notion of Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page that ads can and should be at least as useful to people as search results and other online content. "We believe there is real value to seeing ads about the things that interest you," she wrote. "If, for example, you love adventure travel and therefore visit adventure travel sites, Google could show you more ads for activities like hiking trips to Patagonia or African safaris."

The idea is that if these ads can be targeted to people's apparent interests, they will be more useful. Viewers will consequently be more likely to click on them or otherwise respond. As a result, Google and other companies using behavioral targeting hope they will be able to charge more for such ads. As rates for display ads have dropped in recent years, many companies have been hoping that behavioral targeting would help reverse the trend.

AVOIDING THE "TRUMAN SHOW MOMENT,"
In the last couple of years, however, behavioral targeting has itself been targeted by privacy and consumer advocates. They worry that people's privacy could be violated and that targeting tactics could more easily woo consumers into buying products they don't necessarily need.

Google, which bought the online ad placement firm DoubleClick last year as part of a planned move into display ads, is taking several steps to avoid what some call the "Truman Show moment," a reference to the movie in which Jim Carrey's character suddenly discovers he's the star of a long-running TV show that tracks and broadcasts his every move.

For one thing, Google is labeling ads so people can click to find out more information on how the company shows ads. It also has built an online tool called Ads Preferences Manager, which lets people view, delete, or add interest categories. It's also offering consumers the ability to opt out of the ad-targeting cookie, as well as making available a browser add-on that maintains that choice even if users delete all their cookies, as some do.

Some privacy groups think that's still insufficient. Jeff Chester, executive director of the public policy group Center for Digital Democracy, said that while giving people access to their data profiles is a "step forward," he views it as the company's effort to "dodge a privacy-regulation bullet." Indeed, there are moves in Congress to set rules on behavioral targeting.

PROMISING "TRANSPARENCY AND CHOICE"
Chester said he would prefer that Google and others require people to opt in to being targeted rather than be forced to find the way to opt out. He also plans to ask Google not to target anyone under 18 and to describe in more detail the methods by which it targets.

No doubt Google—already under a microscope for its dominance in search advertising—will be watched closely as it moves into this controversial new area. It will have to avoid a number of privacy pitfalls to maintain the trust of its users. Indeed, Google took the offensive this morning with a post on its public policy blog by Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong outlining the "transparency and choice" Google says it's offering with its brand of targeting.

That won't likely mollify critics much. But some privacy advocates privately admit that they won't be able to stop behavioral targeting entirely. Clearly, Google is assuming that most people won't mind—and might even welcome—more targeted ads. "Most users prefer more relevant ads to less relevant ads," says Google's Bender. Google won't track sensitive categories such as health and religion.

It's likely that the entry of Google, whose brand carries a lot of weight with consumers, will help make targeting more pervasive—if advertisers can resist the temptation to go too far.

Hof is BusinessWeek's Silicon Valley bureau chief.

[thirdeyewise]

this guy has over 4,500 subscribers, unless youtube is inflating his numbers, this guy has a pretty large following!

http://www.youtube.com/user/battim

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

It is obviously a lot of Data-mining and IP tracking as well. But that's idiot Jew for you. They are all for finding that last sliver of info, that search term having a Jew idea with a Negative term and then running Cluster, Market Basket, Naive Bayes, Markov Chains, etc...click path analysis to find anything possible or to group you with others in an "Israeli Unfriendly" group X.  

With Map-Reduce algorithms, which by the way, Sergy and Brin didn't invent nor programmed at length--like most things Jewish, Google is pretty much like Einstein - a Ripoff Jew show.  They merely wrote a paper on how to analyze key word frequency with M-R and they were not the first to do this type of analysis either. The real programming and hard part was done by some White American Goyim using Python on Linux -- but the Jews want you to forget all about that and just look at the Search capability, the commercialization, the money and the Jew Run company and the Networking.  Google would have eventually been created anyway since the open source .py/c++ libraries for map-reduce were made available long before these two fleeing Jews ever entered Stanford.  Now the dumbf***ers want to push their murderous J*wSh*t in your face night and day on datamined networks.  The real problem is the JewIdiots think they are being real clever -- like running the Federal Reserve or IMF... be careful of gmail.... they are lying when they say your privacy is protected.

[MikeWB]

Even if you NEVER visit a Google owned site (YT, Google.com, Gmail, Blobspot etc) they still know what sites you visit! They do it through analytics cookie information and through AdSense (ads that many sites carry) collected information.

http://www.knowprivacy.org/web_bugs_analysis.html
http://www.knowprivacy.org/report/KnowP ... Report.pdf

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Online privacy and behavioral profiling are of growing concern among both consumers and government officials. In this report, we examine both the data handling practices of popular websites and the concerns of consumers in an effort to identify problematic practices. We conclude by offering potential solutions to realign privacy practices with consumers' expectations.

The data for this report were pulled from six domains, three regarding actual website practices and three regarding user expectations. We analyzed the policies of the 50 most visited websites to better understand disclosures about the types of data collected about users, how that information is used, and with whom it is shared. We also looked at specific practices such as sharing information with affiliates and third-party tracking. To understand user concerns and knowledge of data collection we looked at surveys and polls conducted by previous privacy researchers. We looked at records of complaints and inquiries filed with privacy watchdog organizations such as the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), The California Office of Privacy Protection (COPP), and TRUSTe. Through several Freedom of Information Act requests, we also received records of complaints directly from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Finally, to gain some insight into what aspects of data collection users are being made aware of, we looked at news articles from three major newspapers for topics related to Internet privacy.

Our analysis of web bugs revealed that they are ubiquitous on the web; this is troubling because users are less likely to know of web bugs, and effective controls for this tracking technology are lacking. All of the top 50 websites contained at least one web bug at some point in a one month time period. Some had as many as 100. Of greater note was the depth of coverage that some tracking companies have. Several of the tracking companies had a web bug on the majority of the top 100 sites. Google in particular had extensive coverage. It had a web bug on 92 of the top 100 sites, and on 88% of the total domains reported in the data set of almost 400,000 unique domains.

Our survey of privacy policies revealed that most of the top 50 websites collect information about users and use it for customized advertising. Beyond that, however, most contained unclear statements (or lacked any statement) about data retention, purchase of data about users from other sources, or the fate of user data in the event of a company merger or bankruptcy.

Sharing of information presents particular problems. While most policies stated that information would not be shared with third parties, many of these sites allowed third-party tracking through web bugs. We believe that this practice contravenes users' expectations; it makes little sense to disclaim formal information sharing, but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third parties.

Most policies also stated that information could be shared with affiliates. Thus, we requested lists of affiliates with whom data are shared from website operators, but received none. To get a general impression of the number of companies each website in the top 50 could potentially share data with under their current privacy policies, we looked up the parent company of each website and the list of subsidiaries those companies own. The average number of subsidiaries was 297, with a median of 93. This is a second key disconnect between user expectations and website practices. Users do not know and cannot learn the full range of affiliates with which websites may share information.
Combined coverage of Google trackers, March 2009. 348,059 out of 393,829 unique domains reported.

From the previous surveys and polls we found several consistent conclusions: 1) users are concerned about websites collecting information about them and using it for behavioral advertising, 2) users desire control over the collection and use of information about them, and 3) users lack knowledge and understanding about data collection practices and policies.

The survey results were reflected in our analysis of consumer complaints. Qualitative analysis of the complaints suggested that users were mostly concerned with a lack of control over data collection and public display of personal information. Indeed, nearly 40% of the complaints in the data set from the FTC were concerned with opt-out control. Data from the FTC, PRC and COPP all contained a significant number of complaints about data broker portals, particularly ZabaSearch, a free search engine that provides data from public records. Data from TRUSTe showed growing concern with unauthorized use of personal data, particularly to set up public profiles on websites. While the FTC has framed online privacy issues in terms of ―harm,‖ consumers' complaints focus on lack of control over personal information.

Analysis of news articles suggests that users are made aware of behavioral profiling and other data collection topics in general. However, discussion of some practices was non-existent. Almost no mention was made of the practice of sharing data with affiliates or of the use of web bugs.
Finally, even the act of complaining about privacy is frustrated by a lack of clarity. Consumers do not know where to complain, in part because privacy policies do not provide clear information about remedies.

Based on our findings we recommend that website operators and third-party trackers disclose to users all the information that has been collected about them and with whom it has been shared.

Given the size of affiliate networks, we recommend that users be allowed to choose whether or not websites can share information about them with corporate affiliates.

Given the invisible nature of third-party tracking, we recommend that browser developers provide functionality that makes users aware of web bugs.

We recommend that all privacy policies include a link to the FTC's online complaint form.

We recommend that website privacy policies be written in a more readable form without contradictory statements about third-party sharing. Websites that allow third-party tracking cannot fairly state that they do not share information with third parties.

[Father Brown]

Henry Makow once had a link on his page for a search engine that was suppossedly private. I checked it out and did one search just to see if it actually worked at all. But, then I got concerned. How do I know that this is not designed for people like us who look for the kind of information we do? Could it be a honey-pot search engine? I forgot the name of this search engine.

Would any of you find that suspect?

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Would any of you find that suspect?

I would but I doubt Henry Makow would know how to get any deep analysis out of it unless he handed off his data or was working with the ADL.

[Father Brown]

Would any of you find that suspect?

I would but I doubt Henry Makow would know how to get any deep analysis out of it unless he handed off his data or was working with the ADL.

Here it is. It is called Start Page. I have provided the link here.

I did not mean to suggest that Henry would be collecting the data. And as far as I am concerned, I think he is posting it in good faith. However, who is to say he is not being duped? Who the heck even runs it?

Please take a look. What do you guys think?

Do you think it possible that it is set up to track every search for those concerned about being tracked? In other words a Honey Pot?

Or is it possibly a great tool for those of us who think we may be monitored.

[jai_mann]

With Map-Reduce algorithms, which by the way, Sergy and Brin didn't invent nor programmed at length--like most things Jewish, Google is pretty much like Einstein - a Ripoff Jew show.  They merely wrote a paper on how to analyze key word frequency with M-R and they were not the first to do this type of analysis either. The real programming and hard part was done by some White American Goyim using Python on Linux -- but the Jews want you to forget all about that and just look at the Search capability, the commercialization, the money and the Jew Run company and the Networking.  Google would have eventually been created anyway since the open source .py/c++ libraries for map-reduce were made available long before these two fleeing Jews ever entered Stanford.  Now the dumbf***ers want to push their murderous J*wSh*t in your face night and day on datamined networks.  The real problem is the JewIdiots think they are being real clever -- like running the Federal Reserve or IMF... be careful of gmail.... they are lying when they say your privacy is protected.

You absolutely nailed this. These punks are so arrogant and dishonest that they will attempt to take all credit for scientific discovery or any thing else that has a major impact on any given sector of our lives. At the same time they will shit on and attack those who try to point out who the original inventors were of certain methods, procedures, and findings.

What we all need to remember here is that at the core of Jewish or other advanced authoritarian regimes is the scientific method. What was written about by Huxley and others was a global scientific dictatorship. Bertrand Russell specifically stated that the acquisition of power can best be obtained via behaviorism, which is distinct and separate from psychology, which in many cases relies upon theories rather than hard empirical experimental observations. I want to recommend that in the free time that you all have you try to familiarize yourself with behaviorism. I firmly believe that through knowing the enemy's goals and setting long term goals of our own, that we can hinder their goals and work towards achieving our own.

MikeWB, as you've noticed they do a good job in general of recommending videos related to that which you have previously watched. I'm assuming that most of this is done via analysis of the keywords of videos that have been watched. The other thing that they have a tendency of doing is inserting in the middle of the recommended video section, videos of hot chicks. Which is COMPLETELY unrelated to any thing I watch. In my opinion it is an attempt at distracting males who are highly driven by visual stimuli of gorgeous women. If they can get serious males to even occasionally click on videos of sluts, they can open up the door to reducing the males serious behaviors (say studying zionism, 9/11, science, etc.) and increasing nonproductive behaviors.

The practice of increasing nonproductive behaviors amongst the global population while reducing productive behaviors is pretty blatant. The USA has so many damned ways of wasting time on entertainment related things which has led to a decrease in serious behaviors.

I've actually started a document in which I plan to lay out long term goals that I believe would be in the best interest of the average person. Things such as increasing parent child interactions via homeschooling. While there may be less money coming in, the schooling can include teaching the children how to garden short term annual crops and long term crops(fruit/nut trees). The ultimate goals in my basic recommendations will include strengthening the family unit, increasing self sufficiency, increasing serious attitudes.

The rulers have used behaviorism over the last 100 years to shift the behavior and attitudes of the public over a number of generations. We can shift things in a healthier direction as long as we carefully plan and use what we have seen already empirically demonstrated...

[thirdeyewise]

more in your face propaganda:

A YouTube channel devoted to Anne Frank‎



On Wednesday, the Anne Frank House and YouTube announced the launch of a channel devoted to the Jewish teenager who chronicled her life with her family as they hid from Nazis in Amsterdam for two years during WWII. The YouTube channel features the only video footage of Anne Frank as well as interviews with her father, Otto Frank, and other people who knew her before her death in 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi Concentration Camp in northern Germany.
"With the Anne Frank Channel on YouTube, people around the world will be able to explore the life and significance of Anne Frank through unique images," a media statement from the Anne Frank House stated.

http://features.csmonitor.com/innovatio ... nne-frank/

[sullivan]

My guess is that they're profiling us all and if you watch videos about Zionism and Israel, they push these pre-screened (by ADL no less) videos onto you to influence you or change your mind

I don't think it is anything as sinister as that. What they do is find videos similar to those in the playlist of the user whose video you are watching. By the way, the Dirty Electricity skit is a brilliant send up of modern news media and so-called "documentaries".

[Rory27]

...A "suggested" video on youtube having nothing to do with what your searching for,or looking for...This probably happens every minute of every day... :roll:

[sullivan]

Even if you NEVER visit a Google owned site (YT, Google.com, Gmail, Blobspot etc) they still know what sites you visit! They do it through analytics cookie information and through AdSense (ads that many sites carry) collected information.

Not if you have google analytics in your hosts file as 127.0.0.1 or use Adblock in your web browser.

[MikeWB]

Even if you NEVER visit a Google owned site (YT, Google.com, Gmail, Blobspot etc) they still know what sites you visit! They do it through analytics cookie information and through AdSense (ads that many sites carry) collected information.

Not if you have google analytics in your hosts file as 127.0.0.1 or use Adblock in your web browser.

Sully, preventing Google analytics won't prevent what I'm talking about. Also, you've missed the point of my complaint: they're tracking my viewing habits and suggesting video which has nothing to do with the video I'm watching.