The Internet and the Death of Privacy

Kobi · 10-11-2012, 08:42 AM

I am not tech savy and sometimes not very observant until stuff smacks me in the face.

I am noticing a trend now where products I have looked at or info I have search is turning up as ads on unrelated web pages. For example, yesterday I was checking out headphones on amazon. Today, I have amazon ads featuring the exact headphones I was looking at on unrelated web sites.

Is this a shared tracking cookie thing? Or, something I should be concerned about? Will clearing out cookies daily stop it from happening?

10-11-2012, 08:42 AM	#11
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	ads reflecting stuff you have searched I am not tech savy and sometimes not very observant until stuff smacks me in the face. I am noticing a trend now where products I have looked at or info I have search is turning up as ads on unrelated web pages. For example, yesterday I was checking out headphones on amazon. Today, I have amazon ads featuring the exact headphones I was looking at on unrelated web sites. Is this a shared tracking cookie thing? Or, something I should be concerned about? Will clearing out cookies daily stop it from happening?

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