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Just out of curiosity, how would turning on a web cam determine if a visitor saw an ad or not? I'm missing the logic.
by mtbcoder 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, how would turning on a web cam determine if a visitor saw an ad or not? I'm missing the logic.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoThere probably wasn't any logic to it. It was probably the equivilant of when a PM or not technical person asks a developer, "Can't we just put in an IF statement?"
- chii 11y agothis skit is very apropos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoYou can very easily implement eye tracking to determine where they are looking.
- mtbcoder 11y agoPossibly, but that doesn't seem like it would produce very reliable data though.
- juretriglav 11y agoIt wouldn't, but one can sense some logic behind that question in this context. Additionally, advertisers are very familiar with dealing with heaps of unreliable information.
- Phlarp 11y agoThe last thing advertisers want is reliable data-- that would just prove how useless the advertising was!
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Just out of curiosity, how would turning on a web cam determine if a visitor saw an ad or not? I'm missing the logic. Well, at a rough cut, it could verify that there was a client system with a person in front of it. With more work you could maybe use eye-tracking, reflections, etc., to get a more reliable indication of whether the ad was visible to the user.