Bidtellect (bttrack.com)
“Bidtellect’s proprietary algorithm [is] used to measure and analyze user engagement and post-click activity” – Source
Ethical design violations
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tracker
Monetises you.
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web bug
Invisible tracking pixel.
Block rule
Block domain bttrack.com
bttrack.com
Prevalence
High: found on 1.6% of surveyed sites (117 instances observed).
Notes
- “Bidtellect is a digital advertising company that may deliver advertisements to the websites or applications you visit.” Source
- “When you visit the Website, interact with the Services or our emails, we use Cookies … to automatically record … your computer’s IP address or a mobile device’s unique ID, type of browser, domain name or application name of referring website, date and time of day of access, your activities on the Website, your activities on the Services, your activities on other websites you visit, your responses to email, your responses to our online and mobile advertisements” Source
- “We license and otherwise obtain [data] from various other companies, including research companies, data aggregation companies and other third party companies. Data sets may include information about you or your demographic segment that such companies have licensed, purchased or collected. We use this information for all the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and for any other purpose that we chose.” Source
- “If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization, dissolution, or other transaction or if the ownership of all or substantially all of our business otherwise changes, we may share or transfer your information to a third party or parties in connection with the applicable transaction.” Source
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