The interwebs are getting creepy

August 24, 2018, 06:19 PM

Yesterday, I posted this thread in the Lair.

This morning, I was called in to work to do a procedure, and afterwards was looking something up on Youtube. The sidebar had both of the videos that I posted in the Lair yesterday as the top two on the page.

I have never signed in to Youtube. Two completely different computers. Yet, it knew what videos I'd looked up.

I'm getting closer and closer to completely cutting the internet cord once and for all. This shit is too creepy.

August 24, 2018, 06:23 PM

12131

You belong to the Collective, now.

August 24, 2018, 06:44 PM

Tavman

Are you signed into Google/Gmail on both?

August 24, 2018, 07:22 PM

WaterburyBob

Resistance is futile

August 24, 2018, 07:23 PM

arfmel

Those in compliance have nothing to fear

August 24, 2018, 07:24 PM

46and2

I hate that shit.

All such practices should be 100% Opt-In, only.

August 24, 2018, 07:27 PM

hunter62

Wait until you start talking about something with your wife/friends, and then you see an AD for it in your Facebook feed...

August 24, 2018, 07:34 PM

DMF

Welcome to 1994: Link to an explanation.

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August 24, 2018, 09:30 PM

Gustofer

quote:
Originally posted by DMF:
Welcome to 1994: Link to an explanation.

Nope. Not cookies. Two separate computers and not signed into Google or Youtube on either.

August 24, 2018, 09:32 PM

bearstarr

Where you signed into your e-mail provider on the computer you were using?

August 24, 2018, 09:37 PM

Gustofer

Home computer yes, but not the work one.

August 24, 2018, 09:41 PM

46and2

Have you preciously used that same work computer for anything that requires you to login, like a forum or Amazon or any webmail, ever?

August 24, 2018, 09:43 PM

Jimbo54

You've been tagged. You're doomed. The only thing you can do now is find a cave, fill it with what you need to survive for the rest of your life. Or, just do what the rest of the billions of us that have been tagged and sit back and enjoy the ride.

Jim

August 24, 2018, 10:03 PM

Gustofer

quote:
Originally posted by 46and2:
Have you preciously used that same work computer for anything that requires you to login, like a forum or Amazon or any webmail, ever?

Here and Amazon, yeah.

I ain't right. And I don't like it one bit.

August 24, 2018, 10:08 PM

slabsides45

Just take the blue pill. It'll all be better tomorrow.

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August 24, 2018, 10:42 PM

46and2

quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
quote:
Originally posted by 46and2:
Have you preciously used that same work computer for anything that requires you to login, like a forum or Amazon or any webmail, ever?

Here and Amazon, yeah.

I ain't right. And I don't like it one bit.

It's probably the Amazon cookies on the work computer, then. The ad servers are probably making the connection between work-you and home-you before it spits out the tailored ads, and some companies you wouldn't normally associate with one another used shared services for ad placement so all manner of crisscross happens behind the scenes.

Hell, it could probably be done with a fair degree of accuracy even without the Amazon cookies on the work machine, just by behavior patterns of basic browsing.

It sucks, but the ship sailed years ago. Nothing short of enormous changes in the related laws will change anything, either. The internet and smartphones, mixed with free email and social media, have killed any sense of privacy, probably forever. I am displeased.

That or aliens.