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| Too soon old, too late smart |
I was just on the net listening to a teaser bit of an audible book. My wife was doing her Facebook thing and asked me if I had just listened to something about a certain book title. We both get email on the same email address, but no email address was disclosed to them. This is too much of a coincidence having an ad from Audible mentioning the exact title of the book I had just been checking on. I see little ads popping up on different web sites featuring items I had recently searched for, but how can a company follow my tracks on the net and tailor a specific ad for my wife's Facebook account? | ||
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| Blinded by the Sun  |
Are you using mobile devices, logged into Google? If so google is the culprit ------------------------------ Smart is not something you are but something you get. Chi Chi, get the yayo | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Does the audio book start off with "Boom chicka, wow, wow"? If so, one of you might want to delete your search history.  Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Only in an insane world are the sane considered insane. The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime | |||
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The Joy Maker |
Big Advertisement is watching. 
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Funny Man |
Are you both on home Wi-Fi? Likely tagged your shared IP address and bounced adds back. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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| Too soon old, too late smart |
I guess that's it. First the endless unsubscribing and now this. I guess they'll want us to have them over for supper next. | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
I don't understand the disdain for targeted marketing. I'd much rather get relevant advertising (that supports all of the free content on the net) than to sit through breakfast cereal or pharmaceutical commercials on TV. | |||
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Don't Panic |
Facebook's entire purpose is to make that happen. There is an army of programmers ensuring devices and browsers all mine Facebook activity and share the data to put those customized ads in front of Facebook users. Among the little tricks. You see those little 'like' or 'share' buttons on all those websites? Unless you care, and disable the functionality, each one of those identical-looking things is a time-stamped, individualized little ditzel. What website it was on, who got it put in front of them, and whether or not 'like' was clicked is all recorded. Facebook is the worst I'm aware of, but is by far not the only one. It's also no coincidence that stuff in your gmail can be reflected in the ads you see while using Google. There are lots of 'cookie networks' that show up in the oddest places, triggered by clear invisible pixel 'beacons', all with the point of tracking activity under the radar - scorecardresearch.com, googlesyndication.com, doubleclick.net, adnxs.com, etc., etc. etc. | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
Welcome to targeted advertising. The future is here. Data about you (all of us) has been collected ranging from search history, shopping habits, ip addresses, and much much much more. This us collected with the sole intent of getting you to click on ads. “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
By unsubscribing you are actually making it worse. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Shouldn't they at least give you a cigarette when they finish? "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
I'd prefer they at least call the next day. Flowers and chocolates are a nice touch. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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Ammoholic |
It's eerie, besides that I've usually already purchased the item or at a minimum decided which one I was going to get, so it's pointless. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
The only valuable resource, given for free, on the Internet is SIGforum. Everything else has a cost. Thanks Para!  | |||
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