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Lumifer comments on PredictIt, a prediction market out of New Zealand, now in beta. - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 16 March 2015 02:02AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 16 March 2015 05:09:26PM 10 points [-]

Educational, eh?

From their privacy policy:

When you use PredictIt, we may employ technology such as "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users. In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by specific users. ... We may use cookies, clear gifs, log file information and mobile app information for purposes such as ...(c) sending advertisements (including display media) to you when you visit our website or other websites, and monitoring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns ...