Comments on: You are not your IP address http://zahnster.com/industry-talk/you-are-not-your-ip-address my name's jade. i'm a child of the internet. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Diana http://zahnster.com/industry-talk/you-are-not-your-ip-address/comment-page-1#comment-7138 Diana Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:10:32 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=167#comment-7138 Jade. Tens of thousands of US citizens that have retired in Mexico share your frustration. We still use US products (DISH, Vonage, Amazon, EBAY to name a few). We watch US network channels and see the US ads they run. We order things from US and have friends and family bring down on visits or we bring them back after a visit to the US. SOOO, it is VERY frustrating that straeming content internet sites refuse to let us connect. By the way, it isn't only the streaming content we can't get. I bought my 26yr-old daughter a Zune last year and she brought it down so that I could help her set it up. The Zune website wouldn't let us in. I just followed a link to a special offer (wanted to order it for my daughter, who lives in US), but was refused. I am now in the market for a way to mask my actual IP and make it seem like I am physically in the US. There are so many Americans living and visiting other countries. There should be a way we can be told apart from the citizens of that country! Diana Jade. Tens of thousands of US citizens that have retired in Mexico share your frustration. We still use US products (DISH, Vonage, Amazon, EBAY to name a few). We watch US network channels and see the US ads they run. We order things from US and have friends and family bring down on visits or we bring them back after a visit to the US. SOOO, it is VERY frustrating that straeming content internet sites refuse to let us connect.

By the way, it isn’t only the streaming content we can’t get. I bought my 26yr-old daughter a Zune last year and she brought it down so that I could help her set it up. The Zune website wouldn’t let us in. I just followed a link to a special offer (wanted to order it for my daughter, who lives in US), but was refused.

I am now in the market for a way to mask my actual IP and make it seem like I am physically in the US. There are so many Americans living and visiting other countries. There should be a way we can be told apart from the citizens of that country!

Diana

]]> By: Amit Elisha http://zahnster.com/industry-talk/you-are-not-your-ip-address/comment-page-1#comment-1884 Amit Elisha Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:53:02 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=167#comment-1884 Jade, As always, it's a pleasure to read your posts and I hope you are having a great time at your *current* location. I agree with you to some extent...truth of the matter is that you are an exception. Advertisers would prefer to take the risk of missing some relevant audience while filtering 90% of irrelevant traffic. If BestBuy don't ship to Mexico, why bother targeting you? If you are temporarily there, they'll catch you when you are back in the US. FaceBook is a whole different story. They are now working on their Ad network that will use much more info from your profile rather than just your current IP location. Behavioral Ad Networks/profile based networks are facing many litigation issues these days due to privacy concerns. I object to these concerns because we have to face the fact that we didn't find a better model to support the free web other than it being ad supported. If we are bound to get ads (don't get me wrong, I LOVE ads which are interesting/entertaining), they might as well be targeted and interesting and as long as some data is being collected about me in order to achieve that - I'm fine with that. The Hulu issue is a bit different than IP targeting for ads. Look at the old TV model - if you want to get US content from a different country, you will have to pay your cable company for that. Even TV ads and content (like news) are location targeted... I have a different suggestion for Hulu - create an account which costs $1. They charge it to your credit card. Your credit card must have a US billing address. You'll be able to watch the content from anywhere, as long as you are logged in. I am sure you are aware that there are ways to overcome this limitation so you can catch your Daily Show ;) I hope all is well. Amit Jade,

As always, it’s a pleasure to read your posts and I hope you are having a great time at your *current* location.

I agree with you to some extent…truth of the matter is that you are an exception. Advertisers would prefer to take the risk of missing some relevant audience while filtering 90% of irrelevant traffic. If BestBuy don’t ship to Mexico, why bother targeting you? If you are temporarily there, they’ll catch you when you are back in the US.

FaceBook is a whole different story. They are now working on their Ad network that will use much more info from your profile rather than just your current IP location.

Behavioral Ad Networks/profile based networks are facing many litigation issues these days due to privacy concerns. I object to these concerns because we have to face the fact that we didn’t find a better model to support the free web other than it being ad supported. If we are bound to get ads (don’t get me wrong, I LOVE ads which are interesting/entertaining), they might as well be targeted and interesting and as long as some data is being collected about me in order to achieve that – I’m fine with that.

The Hulu issue is a bit different than IP targeting for ads. Look at the old TV model – if you want to get US content from a different country, you will have to pay your cable company for that. Even TV ads and content (like news) are location targeted… I have a different suggestion for Hulu – create an account which costs $1. They charge it to your credit card. Your credit card must have a US billing address. You’ll be able to watch the content from anywhere, as long as you are logged in. I am sure you are aware that there are ways to overcome this limitation so you can catch your Daily Show ;)

I hope all is well.
Amit

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