Privacy

[Hunter711]

Another thing I found interesting when I noticed it a while back. Has anyone else noticed that after you've been googling items. Be it RC's, stools, pressure washers.. etc... Those same items always seem to appear in the banner ads of other sites you may visit. Funny how the local news stations web site knows I've been looking at Axial, Vaterra and the like. Isn't it great to be part of the information age???? :mrgreen:

Chit, all that data collection started with the birth of WEBZ. I'm 64, and have watched all this crap rize and consume the population.

We are all subject to the "All seeing Eye" ;-)

 

[Robbob]

Another thing I found interesting when I noticed it a while back. Has anyone else noticed that after you've been googling items. Be it RC's, stools, pressure washers.. etc... Those same items always seem to appear in the banner ads of other sites you may visit. Funny how the local news stations web site knows I've been looking at Axial, Vaterra and the like. Isn't it great to be part of the information age???? :mrgreen:

Im logged into my google account on my home and work Chrome browser. The cookies I get at home google know to show them to me every where Im logged in.

Same thing with Yahoo. Once you log in to anywhere they know to send you add related info every where. Cookies make internet browsing easy but holy crap they information they get now is incredible with them.

 

[Hunter711]

Once you log in to anywhere they know to send you add related info every where. Cookies make internet browsing easy but holy crap they information they get now is incredible with them.

Does this REALLY surprise you? :|

 

[Robbob]

Does this REALLY surprise you? :|

Nope, least they could do though is wait till Friday to show them all and I have money :mrgreen:

 

[Hunter711]

Nope, least they could do though is wait till Friday to show them all and I have money :mrgreen:

Ahh, but the trick is my good man is, not to show when your "Friday" is. ;-)

 

[BUBBA069]

Google knows what porn you like better than you do.

 

[CM9000]

of course, it knows I like four eyed foxes more than euro foxes..

 

[NoobCrawler]

I paid for the tires that are currently on my truck in cash. paid with cash! and an add for my tires pops up on my fb feed the next day. I say its a conspiracy.

While scrolling through Instagram the other day, I saw an ad for a brand of pudding I bought once at the grocery store months ago. I simply had my phone in my pocket. It could've been coincidence, but I doubt it. I think next time I'm going to buy some random item I've never bought before & see if it comes up.

 

[CM9000]

or don't use a smartphone. like me.

 

[WHITE-TRASH]

While scrolling through Instagram the other day, I saw an ad for a brand of pudding I bought once at the grocery store months ago. I simply had my phone in my pocket. It could've been coincidence, but I doubt it. I think next time I'm going to buy some random item I've never bought before & see if it comes up.

My money says if you use a debit card or most assuredly a rewards card when checking out it will pop up in your ad feed.