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Post by msapple on Mar 15, 2014 17:00:30 GMT -5
All the more reason to be as diligent as possible in preventing yourself from being tracked and advertised to. Solutions are widely available if one simply knows how to search.
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Post by theconspiracist on Mar 15, 2014 18:54:12 GMT -5
Like others have said, its targeted advertising. You will see it on many websites. It and a host of other things is the reason I refuse to have a personal facebook account anymore.
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Post by yourpresident on Mar 16, 2014 11:55:37 GMT -5
It's called contextual advertising.....I earn a living online and see this all the time, it's nothing to be alarmed about......If I posted an article on one of my sites about any given subject, within seconds the google ads are displaying ads associated with the keywords in the article.......all sites (that have adsense or other contextual ad companies) including Facebook will do this.....no conspiracy.....just companies making a dollar or two
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Post by ispyi on Mar 16, 2014 13:10:11 GMT -5
All the more reason to be as diligent as possible in preventing yourself from being tracked and advertised to. Solutions are widely available if one simply knows how to search. Why?.....you are not being tracked for any nefarious reasons, in fact you are not being tracked at all unless you click on one of the ads, and then it is likely only a 24 hour cookie linked to an ad you have shown an interest in.....contextual advertising is a good thing!.....If you use the internet to browse your interests and hobbies, and in the course of that browsing you are presented with ads that relate to your browsing habits and are therefore relevant to your interests....how is that a bad thing? Advertising on the internet is here to stay!.....surely it's not unreasonable to be presented with ads that are of interest to you instead of the irrelevant ads that were spammed to internet users several years ago?........Does anyone who watches TV have any control over the ads you see there?
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Post by Olivia on Mar 16, 2014 18:53:23 GMT -5
I've seen first hand some data that my "friend" can pull from the huge databases that Facebook (among all the other big "social media sites", be it Youtube, Ebay, Netflix or any other) has made available for "partners and law enforcement officials." My friend works for a company that makes new algorithms for "target advertising" and "research for political and societal purposes" .. which in practice means they generate ways to manipulate large group of people through individuals and the other way around.
The amount of data they have is staggering and they do "forecasting" for individual users according to all his actions In Facebook and they compare them to other groups with similar stats and backgrounds. They also classify every single user according to his actions with gazillion variables.
For example they know exactly how many seconds in average it takes for you to reply to your friends in different "groups" (they call your most active friends and family members "group A") or/and how long it takes in average for you to open any link that has been sent through Facebook. Some of the data I've seen is just mind blowingly personal and disturbing, especially when you see the "forecast" variables for individual users and "modified personal links" (MPL) which they call "jokingly" manipulation links among the coders and statisticians.
When they try to forecast the number of your future children when you're 15-18 years old, your most likely professional career and education level and classify you as "attention seeker, group A activist, celebrity fanboy" in their databases, I'm pretty sure calling them manipulation links is more than appropriate.
(And they also rate you for how easily/often you click a generic add, targeted add or a link in your private conversations vs. group messages (walls and w'ever, I don't use facebook myself so some details are a bit sketchy for me).
I also got to see my personal results that was gathered from Youtube, Ebay, Amazon and some other big sites that I've registered with the same email/id. It was pretty damn accurate, mind you..
(And they're also making a cross database which connects all your information to be able to "id" you based on your name/alias, real name, email, ip-address (yes), paypal accounts etc.. there is no escaping them using some lame im_not_here@hotmail.com -address with false details.)
So if you are "only" targeted with ads at the moment, be happy.. at least you know now you're being monitored and manipulated 24/7.
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Post by paranormalskits on Mar 16, 2014 19:03:18 GMT -5
I understand the concept of targeted advertising, and indeed its benifits, aswell as its implications.
But I must clarify;
This was real life conversation, which took place in my kitchen. Spoken word. There was no clicking. There was no searching.
The Ketchup thing was sort of a side point, the conversation itself was more about Kraft Dinner.
This is why I chose the word "listening"... not in figurative sense (i.e. monitoring text conversation and etc on the internet), but in the literal sense.
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Post by anonymoushacker on Mar 17, 2014 16:15:05 GMT -5
Firstly; Yes, I am Canadian. Great Deduction my friend! Secondly; YOU ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE KETCHUP CHIPS IN THE US?!
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Post by redsoxfan on Mar 17, 2014 16:34:36 GMT -5
Why?.....you are not being tracked for any nefarious reasons, in fact you are not being tracked at all unless you click on one of the ads, and then it is likely only a 24 hour cookie linked to an ad you have shown an interest in.....contextual advertising is a good thing!.....If you use the internet to browse your interests and hobbies, and in the course of that browsing you are presented with ads that relate to your browsing habits and are therefore relevant to your interests....how is that a bad thing? Advertising on the internet is here to stay!.....surely it's not unreasonable to be presented with ads that are of interest to you instead of the irrelevant ads that were spammed to internet users several years ago?........Does anyone who watches TV have any control over the ads you see there? No but that's why we have mute buttons and Tivo. It's annoying as all hell to be constantly bombarded by people telling me I need this or that. If I decide I want or need something, I will at that time conduct my own research on what I want to buy and where. I don't need a million voices constantly telling me I need their product or service. It's just like the bums on the street constantly begging you for money, they won't shut up no matter how many times you say no. You can't get anywhere these days without hearing "spare some change sir?" or "blah blah blah for only $9.99!" everywhere you go.
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Post by pimpsmackyou on Mar 17, 2014 16:57:00 GMT -5
It is known fact that your microphone can be activated remotely by spyware, Google has been doing it for years. It wouldn't surprise me if FB has the ability to do so.
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Post by msapple on Mar 17, 2014 18:35:41 GMT -5
Yes I've heard of this ability, as well as people being able to remotely turn on and operate web cameras (which is why I put my laptop in the closet whenever I'm finished using it lol).
In my kitchen though? There was no computer around!
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