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Here's the company behind that: http://www.criteo.com/

Its a 3 billion French company whose sole job is to show ads for products abandoned in the cart or something you bought 6 months ago or something that their personalization algorithm suggests

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Technically this is not correct. You can achieve the very same result using different products (eg. Adroll, Exponential Interactive) or even using Google and Facebook natively.

[0] https://www.adroll.com/

[1] http://exponential.com/

Ironically, that's the only good tech employer in France :D

I wonder if the only action against them is sending them so much traffic their servers can't keep up.

I feel with the advent of internet of shit, this will start becoming more of commonplace

They likely have billions dollars in infrastructure, you're not gonna DDoS them.

They are the one DDoSing you with ads.

Client side re-targeting has two pieces to it: a "segment" code placed on the product page (a marker showing you have interest in this particular product) and a "burn" code placed on the conversion page (that removes the previous marker, so they can stop showing you ads for this product once you bought it).

One could add the "burn" code every time the "segment" code is detected. On some networks that may even result in an affiliate payout.

In your opinion which others come close?

Which employers would you recommend avoiding?

There is nothing else close, there is no google facebook microsoft in France.

I was going to suggest OVH, but looking at the reviews at glassdoor.com… well, maybe not.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/OVH-Reviews-E523060.htm

Not comparable to Google.

OVH is only a hosting company. Low margin business. They have no software side, they don't make billion of dollars, they don't run thousands of projects.

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