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Privacy, what was that? And when? Recently my bookmark for the Croatian daily newspaper Vjesnik somehow got corrupted and I went on Google Search for vjesnik.hr. Among about 766 thousand hits, the website www.quantcast.com caught my eye with its Quantcast Audience Profile for the website www.vjesnik.hr. I expected traffic data, both in number of visits and number of bytes, but I found much more. How and from whom they collected the visitors data on nationality, age, sex, educa- tion, income, family size... ? Yet they claim:"Quantcast does not collect any personally identifiable information - that is, information that could be used to uniquely identify or locate an individual." Sure. That is, I’m sure they know if I visit bathroom before or after vjesnik.hr website, only US bathrooms for now but they will advance globally. As for the graphs, do I see anything of interest? The monthly average of 19,200 visitors and 372 kB (19.4 kB per visitor) is not something to talk about. What happen- ed on Mar.8, 2007 (max. visitors) and Aug.9, 2009 (max. bytes)? On Mar.8, 2007 Vjesnik reported that US Congress backs Croatia’s NATO member- ship and US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor issued a 2006 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Croatia. On Aug.9, 2009 Vjesnik reported on the inflammable conflict between Croatian president Stjepan Mesić and Croatian catholic church (which I also commented: grWeekly090920) but obviously that didn’t make the max bytes. It was the first of two U2's concerts (U2 360° Tour, 1st leg: Europe) held on football stadium Maksimir in Zagreb. |
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