[Info-vax] Now that's targeted advertising!

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <maecsr$7lb$1 at news.albasani.net>,
	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> Kerry Main skrev den 2015-01-29 21:48:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Jojimbo
>>> Sent: 29-Jan-15 1:13 PM
>>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>>> Subject: [New Info-vax] Now that's targeted advertising!
>>>
>>> Browsing my local newspaper site and guess what ad Amazon displayed?
>>> Vms internals and data structures!  This internet thing is getting more
>>> creepy all the time. Jim
>>
>> If you also have a gmail account...
> 
> I do not think you need a Gmail or Google account yourself. It's
> enough that you are on a site looking for something and that *site*
> has an agreement with Google. That sites internal "search" tool can
> transfer search keywords to Google and Google-ads on *other* sites
> will happily try to sell similar stuff to you...
> 
> They (Google) use IP address to connect your searces on one site
> to ads on another site.
> 

Privacy Badger.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger


bill

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