| After reading the recent article on emotion-based targeting for NYT ads, I went looking through the source of a few articles and found this in the source code of [1]. Anyone seen this kind of thing before or know why this would happen? <!--
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From: Kingsbury, Katie <katie.kingsbury@nytimes.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Rollout
To: Bennet, James <james.bennet@nytimes.com> James, Here’s a line up for the launch tomorrow, all of these will be online before Sunday: • A.G.’s publisher’s note about The Times
• Manjoo on household items that track us
• Wu on the history of privacy
• Jeong on A.I. and insurance
• Metzel on genetically engineered babies
• Warzel on tech CEOs in their own words
• Fr. Martin on privacy and faith
• Emily Chang on privacy as a feminist issue
• Douthat on our post-privacy order
• Swisher on privacy regulation
• Irby on what’s funny about all this.
Plus, of course, your piece if you can actually get it done in time.Next week, we’ll drop the piece about how we turned a public camera in Manhattan into a facial recognition equipped surveillance machine and who we caught with it. The vanity URL is locked in as nytimes.com/privacy-project and the social team has spun up the @PrivacyProject account. Katie
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which also includes the commented email in the source.
Also relevant from the launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638568 "The NYT's fancy new 'Privacy Project' page is stuffed with tracking scripts"