spyware generated advertising?
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Lots of web sites either display Google ads to generate revenue and/or have the Google Analytics code embedded in their pages to allow them to assess how well their site is performing.
Where that is the case and you visit such a web site, Google takes a note of your IP address. Later on, when you're browsing a site that displays Google ads, it will use your IP address to tailor the ads it displays based on what you've looked at regularly and/or recently; the aim being to increase the likelihood of your clicking on an ad.
Where that is the case and you visit such a web site, Google takes a note of your IP address. Later on, when you're browsing a site that displays Google ads, it will use your IP address to tailor the ads it displays based on what you've looked at regularly and/or recently; the aim being to increase the likelihood of your clicking on an ad.
crikey! Do you get a window in to our lives? I'd hate to think that my self-appointed status of forum libertine and ne'er-do-well was being undone by references to shower thermostats, wooden blinds, and Simply Red CDs.
I'm teasing about the Simply Red CDs, by the way.....
(...wasted all my tears, di-dum, wasted all those years di-dum and nothing had the chance....)
I'm teasing about the Simply Red CDs, by the way.....
(...wasted all my tears, di-dum, wasted all those years di-dum and nothing had the chance....)
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Ads, Its one of the reasons I use Firefox and adblocker 
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I found it really creepy when adverts for Fitness Singles first started following me around the internet!
Sometimes it comes in handy though. I've had times when I was researching something but got distracted and forgot about it. For days afterwards, ads pop up which serve as reminders. (Note to self: Remember to order that copy of "How To Become An Internet Billionaire In 10 Minutes Without Doing Any Work Or Even Having Any Bright Ideas For Dummies")
Sometimes it comes in handy though. I've had times when I was researching something but got distracted and forgot about it. For days afterwards, ads pop up which serve as reminders. (Note to self: Remember to order that copy of "How To Become An Internet Billionaire In 10 Minutes Without Doing Any Work Or Even Having Any Bright Ideas For Dummies")
C
chillyuk
Guest
Ads, Its one of the reasons I use Firefox and adblocker
But do the ads generate any revenue for this site, contributing to allow us to enjoy all it offers free of charge. if so, it is a very small price to pay.
is this the same mechanism that does advertising on google blogs like the FNRttC blog http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/ ? Could the advertising make me seriously minted? Or even pay for the postage for the membership cards?
you're fit, you're single, what's not to like?
Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
I have a pair of Siberian Huskies, and a border collie, I also have a pair of Red Tailed Hawks and spend a lot of my time in the great outdoors. So the internet spy bots keep suggesting daytime dogging in the UK for me
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The feeling that someone is watching you!
I watched a video clip somewhere by some internet marketing 'guru' and was bombarded by ads featuring him for a couple of weeks. I searched for obesity statistics and got loads of ads promising me that I could lose 32 pounds of fat in 14 days without exercising ...
I find it a bit sinister.
