Reponse to Commenter Jaffer Ali’s "Driving In The Rear-View Mirror"

Jaffer Ali, the semi-retired CEO of EVTV1, and a jovial industry colleague is usually good for some creative commentary and periodic fire-starting.

Today’s piece “Driving In The Rear-View Mirror” published in Mediapost, required a response as I completely disagreed with it.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=113117

This notion is nothing new. In fact, I know it has been on the radar since the Web 1.0 days; check out the original 1997 Lilypad white paper discussing time-shifted response-behavior and measurement:

http://www.seicheanalytics.com/consulting/lilypad.html#bapm

(See Figure #C.)

Quantcast makes changes in reaction to Flash cookie Study

Study by Academic Researchers, “Flash Cookies and Privacy,”
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862

Quantcast’s response was pretty good:
http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2009/08/flash-cookies-measurement.html

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