Is 37 Signals Selling Behavioral Targeting Data?

No, we are not selling behavioral targeting data - or any other data - about our visitors to anyone.<p>Our Product Blog (which is referenced in the screenshot) is hosted on Typepad.<p>It looks like Typepad injects javascript from Quantcast and cdn.media6degrees.com at the bottom of Typepad-hosted pages. This appears to be related to Typepad's internal analytics reporting. More info here: <a href="http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/typepad.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1162" rel="nofollow">http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/typepad.cfg/php/enduser/s...</a><p>Check out some other Typepad hosted blogs (<a href="http://www.avc.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.avc.com</a>, for example) and you'll see the same code. In fact, I can't seem to find a Typepad-powered blog that doesn't have this code. Here's a long list: <a href="http://featured.typepad.com" rel="nofollow">http://featured.typepad.com</a><p>This code appears to be what Ghostery is picking up and calling out.

This is the author of Ghostery. Sorry if it came off that way that is not my intent. I am not pitching my "free" product.<p>The difference here is that Media6 Degrees collects your behavioral data ties it with your social graph (your friends) data packages it up and resells it to other ad networks to target you.<p>Google Analytics data doesn't get sold to 3rd parties nor is it used by AdWords/AdSense to target ads at you (at least that is Google's claim).<p>Sorry if this came off as an ad, its not.

Warning! Entering the fact-free zone.<p>Seriously, it's impolite to publish articles that are angry accusations without (a) consulting the accused and (b) limiting one's accusations to the evidence at hand.<p>Your article makes it sound like they collect confidential data from their apps and sell it for money. Can't understand why so many people would upvote this.

Can someone explain how this is any weirder than 37signals using Google to serve ads? I'm not expressing an opinion, I just don't know what this post is trying to say.

It looks like the guy is using it to pitch his product.

If you were truly legit you would have first asked them. I flagged this post.