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[rwidman]

Someone is watching me without me knowing it. Spying on me. At the top of this forum are ads for products that I have looked at on amazon.com and other websites.

I guess I'll have to figure out if it's the ones I've viewed on this particular PC or anything I've viewed from any PC.

 

[jeffnick]

All I see is ads on how to become a marine tech or OB mechanic.

 

[ARoss]

What browser do you use? With Mozilla Firefox, all I needed was installation of "Adblock Plus"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

Cleans out a lot of other stuff on Yahoo, etc also.

 

[Blue Heron]

GO to your desktop and select Security and Delete Cookies. Also ensure security is enabled through Privacy and select your level of access.

 

[rwidman]

Yes, I can delete the cookies. They will come back.

I don't really mind, it's the thought that someone can track what I do on the computer.

 

[rwidman]

All I see is ads on how to become a marine tech or OB mechanic.

And you already are one?

I was looking for fender whips so an amazon.com ad came up. My wife had been looking at clothes on JC Penny's website so an ad for Penny's came up.

It's a good thing I wasn't browsing for an escort service!

 

[Keith]

I'm pretty sure the airlines set cookies on your computer when you're fare-shopping. I've looked around then when I went back to the cheapest one, it had miraculously gone up quite a bit. So did the others when I went back.

 

[BaltimoreLurker]

What browser do you use? With Mozilla Firefox, all I needed was installation of "Adblock Plus"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

Cleans out a lot of other stuff on Yahoo, etc also.

That seems to have done it!

Thanks

 

[Marin]

All the browsers and ISPs have tracking code in them to find out what websites an individual visits. This data is then provided to advertisers so they can target specific markets. So if you go to boating sites a lot you will get boating ads displayed on the forums and other sites you visit that use ads as an income generator. If you go to car sites you will get automotive ads and so forth. As it was explained to me by a co-worker's son who works for Google writing code for applications like this you can't really turn it off because it works outside your computer. While the settings on your own computer may or may not affect the display of ads, the tracking of what you visit and then the targeting of ad categories to match your visits occurs at the browser or ISP level, not at your computer's level.

So regardless of your computer's settings, the moment you visit a URL this data is noted at Google or Firefox or whoever and the ad targeting process is activated.

This is nothing new, it's just getting more sophisticated.

 

[ben2go]

I run Aurora browser with adblock plus and Abine DNT.Both of these have sped up my browser and stop all that crap from popping up.Aurora is a different version of FireFox browser.

 

[CPseudonym]

I run Aurora browser with adblock plus and Abine DNT.Both of these have sped up my browser and stop all that crap from popping up.Aurora is a different version of FireFox browser.

While those programs do speed up your Web browsing, the data acquisition continues. As Marin stated, it's all indexed to your IP and completely outside of your computers box so to speak.

Ghosting your IP is the only option for the anonymity that most folks assume they have online but even that step is no where near as private as some believe.

 

[ben2go]

While those programs do speed up your Web browsing, the data acquisition continues. As Marin stated, it's all indexed to your IP and completely outside of your computers box so to speak.

Ghosting your IP is the only option for the anonymity that most folks assume they have online but even that step is no where near as private as some believe.

This is true.

 

[rwidman]

There will come a day when the IRS tracks your spending through credit cards and bank accounts and compares it to your tax returns.

This will not be a problem for wage earners and salaried employees, but for those working for tips or under the table (or dealing drugs, etc.), it might be the end of their free ride.

 

[ben2go]

There will come a day when the IRS tracks your spending through credit cards and bank accounts and compares it to your tax returns.

This will not be a problem for wage earners and salaried employees, but for those working for tips or under the table (or dealing drugs, etc.), it might be the end of their free ride.

It's gonna kill me to have to pay taxes on the money I earn through the internet.I don't think I will be able to pay the taxes on the few hundred I make per year.Now you telling me the gooberment will be(is) tracking everything transaction I make.What ever will I do.













:lol:

I don't think they can do that.It would seem to me to be a serious breech of privacy.

 

[Fighterpilot]

I experienced the same problem as noted in the airline fares, but I was using one of the search tools. Thought it was just an anomoly.

 

[oldsaltbob]

Stopped using Google months ago because of the tracking.
Went to "duckduckgo" because they do not track or bubble.
Very happy.

 

[JAT]

What browser do you use? With Mozilla Firefox, all I needed was installation of "Adblock Plus"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

Cleans out a lot of other stuff on Yahoo, etc also.

I also use Firefox, with Adblock plus, PrivacyChoiced Trackerblocker, Ghostery, and Abine Privacy Suite, not to mention VIPRE anti-virus and firewall... and I don't see any ads.

They can follow me and track me if they want...I'll cure their insomnia in a matter of hours.....

 

[rwidman]

I don't read the ads and I don't click on them. My point is, someone is tracking where we go on the Internet. That's a bad trend.

 

[Tom.B]

I don't read the ads and I don't click on them. My point is, someone is tracking where we go on the Internet. That's a bad trend.

Why? I'd much rather get ads that have some reasonable expectation of relevancy rather than ads for crap I have no interest in whatsoever.

 

[BaltimoreLurker]

I don't read the ads and I don't click on them. My point is, someone is tracking where we go on the Internet. That's a bad trend.

If that bothers you, you may have to drop off the grid entirely. What with your cell phone, black boxes in your autos, credit card usage, video cams everywhere, ATM usage, etc., etc. - the data miners and "The Man" are able to find out what you're up to and interested in. What you eat, what you drink, how fast you drive, where you go, who you talk to, when and how much.

It is a bad trend and I don't like it either. But .... I don't want to live like OBL in Abbottabad, so, here we are.

 

[rwidman]

Why? I'd much rather get ads that have some reasonable expectation of relevancy rather than ads for crap I have no interest in whatsoever.

Do you read the ads? Do you click on them?

I don't. If there is something I need or want to buy, I do a web search for the product and then go to the vendor's websites. I don't need help doing this.

Right now, There's an ad for JC Pennys at the top of the screen. I suspect my wife has been shopping on the computer.

 

[ben2go]

If that bothers you, you may have to drop off the grid entirely. What with your cell phone, black boxes in your autos, credit card usage, video cams everywhere, ATM usage, etc., etc. - the data miners and "The Man" are able to find out what you're up to and interested in. What you eat, what you drink, how fast you drive, where you go, who you talk to, when and how much.

It is a bad trend and I don't like it either. But .... I don't want to live like OBL in Abbottabad, so, here we are.

I had a mental block on that info.Now it's back to the foil hat and living in a fox hole.See you guys after the end on 12-21-12.


:lol:


They also know about all the porn you watch too,because they are also watching it.

 

[CPseudonym]

I don't read the ads and I don't click on them. My point is, someone is tracking where we go on the Internet. That's a bad trend.

Welcome to the digital age sir, happened about 10 years ago.

Please keep what you posted above to yourself though, we don't want others to figure it out too