how come.....

Hootsmon

if I am looking at an album on eBay, on my desk top, an add for the same album comes up on my wife's Ipad on Facebook ad ?

Fretwired

hootsmon said:

if I am looking at an album on eBay, on my desk top, an add for the same album comes up on my wife's Ipad on Facebook ad ?

Same internet connection?

Hootsmon

Yes Sir

breakstuff

Haven't got a clue hoots,but the same thing happened to me when browsing for a DVD copy of Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties from Bermuda.

Spare room for me that night.

richardhomer

Magic....

Fretwired

hootsmon said:

Yes Sir

That's your answer ..

Here's how it works: when you visit a site that wants to show you an ad later, they 'tag' your browser with a small text file called a cookie.

When you move on to a new site that has a space for personalised ads, even one not at all related to the original site, the page will recognise your tracking cookie and show you a 'relevant' ad.

If the site is lucky, the ad reminds you to return.

Maybe you decided those shoes were too expensive on Monday, for example, but you might buy them when you're feeling flush on Friday... if you see them again.

Cookies are linked to a browser - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, whatever you use to get online - and you can delete them.

But it's worth knowing that the way companies serve up targeted ads is growing ever more sophisticated: it's even possible for them to 'follow' users as they use the internet on different devices.

Now, if you were searching for some shoes at work, you might see the same pair when you search at home. Companies do this by a process they call 'triangulation'.

They look for users with very similar patterns of use and conclude that the very similar ones are likely to be the same people. Then they show them 'relevant' ads.

roundthebend

A bit more than what Fretwired says. The add are served by a 3rd party website (not eBay) and when doing so they collect info which is unique to you. When you use a different device they will recognise your unique info and serve ads for things relevant to, or even precisely, what you've already looked at

Hootsmon

Thanks Fretty 

Hootsmon

breakstuff said:

Haven't got a clue hoots,but the same thing happened to me when browsing for a DVD copy of Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties from Bermuda.

Spare room for me that night.

Breaky I've got that movie....I will send you a copy in a plain brown wrapper.....stamped PORN

Legionreturns

Short answer, if the algorithms bother you, is to browse using Tor and search using duck duck go. 

Welcome to ad free internet with no useable cookies! 

https://duckduckgo.com

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

breakstuff

hootsmon said:

breakstuff said:

Haven't got a clue hoots,but the same thing happened to me when browsing for a DVD copy of Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties from Bermuda.

Spare room for me that night.

Breaky I've got that movie....I will send you a copy in a plain brown wrapper.....stamped PORN

To the usual address?

Thanks mate.

Axe_meister

Worse thing is, they collect the information from your home IP address. So if I on my personal PC (even in private browsing mode), search for Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties. The IP address is entered into some database somewhere. So when my wife or kids get a page served by some advertising, it reads the IP address notices that somebody at that address likes Fat Bottomed girls and then suggests to them, on any device that connects through that same internet connection that they look at fatbottomedgirls.com

breakstuff

Axe_meister said:

Worse thing is, they collect the information from your home IP address. So if I on my personal PC (even in private browsing mode), search for Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties. The IP address is entered into some database somewhere. So when my wife or kids get a page served by some advertising, it reads the IP address notices that somebody at that address likes Fat Bottomed girls and then suggests to them, on any device that connects through that same internet connection that they look at fatbottomedgirls.com

Mmm, Fatbottomedgirls.com


Not seen that one before.Thanks for the heads up @Axe_meister.

Cheers,

Breakstuffs son.

Axe_meister

breakstuff said:

Axe_meister said:

Worse thing is, they collect the information from your home IP address. So if I on my personal PC (even in private browsing mode), search for Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties. The IP address is entered into some database somewhere. So when my wife or kids get a page served by some advertising, it reads the IP address notices that somebody at that address likes Fat Bottomed girls and then suggests to them, on any device that connects through that same internet connection that they look at fatbottomedgirls.com

Mmm, Fatbottomedgirls.com


Not seen that one before.Thanks for the heads up @Axe_meister.

Cheers,

Breakstuffs son.

May contain Queen content

breakstuff

Axe_meister said:

breakstuff said:

Axe_meister said:

Worse thing is, they collect the information from your home IP address. So if I on my personal PC (even in private browsing mode), search for Buxom,Big Bottomed Beauties. The IP address is entered into some database somewhere. So when my wife or kids get a page served by some advertising, it reads the IP address notices that somebody at that address likes Fat Bottomed girls and then suggests to them, on any device that connects through that same internet connection that they look at fatbottomedgirls.com

Mmm, Fatbottomedgirls.com


Not seen that one before.Thanks for the heads up @Axe_meister.

Cheers,

Breakstuffs son.

May contain Queen content

I was hoping for straight women,but never mind.

Axe_meister

Damn that site actually exists

breakstuff

Axe_meister said:

Damn that site actually exists

Good isn't it?