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Cookies help advertisers format ads on your computer; improve ad cost efficiency; attribute user engagement; and customize offers based on your browsing and search history. Given that ads are an established fact of online life, if you’ve just searched for lawn mower reviews, wouldn’t you rather see potentially useful ads for lawnmowers or fertilizer, rather than ads for, say, female hygiene products?</p> <p>On the other hand, many find the use of cookies objectionable, intrusive, or even verging on cyber-stalking. Some questionable cookie uses include building and selling users’ online profiles; identifying targets for e.g. credit repair offers based on online behavior that implies financial struggles; adjusting prices down or up based on the user’s perceived affluence; and/or not offering or even denying services based on medical and/or other information. 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As a result, advertising vendors face increasingly tough questions from their clients about targeting prospective customers, and accurately calculating conversion rates on mobile devices.</p> <p><div style=" display: block; text-align: center; padding:7px 0 10px 0; min-width:130px; max-width: 1000px;"><p><script async src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210517004623js_/https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4036751848030958" data-ad-slot="1052559114" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></p> <p> Another result is that users’ privacy preferences, such as tracking opt-out, entered on one app are unlikely to be respected on other apps or on the mobile web browser, or vice versa, simply because the ad networks don’t recognize the different instances of visitor interactions as belonging to the same person.</p> <p>A few years ago, this was only an emerging concern for advertisers. 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