The Internet and the Death of Privacy

[Kobi]

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?

[Sachita]

Originally Posted by Kobi

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?

yes and it is invasive IMO but almost every platform allows it. It depends which browser you're using but you can turn them off or there is software you can buy to help you do this. I personally think we should be given the choice before hand when we install things and Microsoft should add a feature, that really works, where we know when something is being installed or a setting changed. But then again they are part of the game.

There is lots of info out there if you do a search on google to properly set up your PC. Be forewarned it could slow you down a little