The Problem With IDG's Media Conflict of Interests
… number of roughly 12 million. And when IDG provides information to vendors, they are not going to offer it for just one publication. Instead, it is aggregated for all the publications that are related to one another. That is a lot of information that is being sold to vendors and consulting firms.
This means that IDG is tracking all website visitors and is making a great effort to do so.
A big part of its business model is selling this information to industry sources.
IDG has every incentive to be extremely invasive with its site visitors and little incentive to …