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Some of these advertisements are by Google and it tracks what you are searching and what you might be thinking of purchasing. It then puts those things in your usual browsing.That's why I use Adblocker!
You can also block googleadservices.com and associated cookies to cut back on a lot of this sort of stuff...
It's not unrelated at all actually as Windows 10 is one of the most if not the most invasive OS ever. Talk about data-mining. Pretty much everything you do is tracked and reported back to Microsoft so they can, among other things, better target you with ads. Other than as an 'empty' test bed installation to support customers I will never install Winblows 10 on one of my computers!
It's not unrelated at all actually as Windows 10 is one of the most if not the most invasive OS ever. Talk about data-mining. Pretty much everything you do is tracked and reported back to Microsoft so they can, among other things, better target you with ads. Other than as an 'empty' test bed installation to support customers I will never install Winblows 10 on one of my computers!
On a somewhat related note...
I'm not all that excited that Microsoft just take over your computer when they decide to download their 'updates'.
I have had an annoying week of failed MS 10 updates that take control of my computer and then just leave it in limbo when the update fails at 91% after about 8 hours.
The only option is to pull the power. My computer geek son tells me he has now disabled the "update process" and that is the way it will stay unless MS can "un-disable" it.
You would think that they would have a process where a failed update would either diagnose the problem OR at least stop trying to repeat the failed update.
There is nothing remotely unusual about my 2 yo bog standard DELL laptop, so if i am having problems there must be a lot of others as well.
I have always hated MS because of their crappy programming but have stayed with them only because I have support readily to hand.
I searched for something on my phone and the Facebook adds on my pc matched my search.
I don't have Facebook installed on my phone and wasn't logged in to Google on my pc.
I'm not sure how it knew.
I have heard people with iPhones say that they have been talking about something and then get targeted adds for it. Implying that their phones are listening. Some apps always run the microphone to give faster start up times but they claim they don't do anything with the info captured.
I've messed about trying to teach myself machine learning for the past couple of years. I recall one competition on Kaggle where the client was looking to identify people across devices by matching their web browsing patterns - without IP addresses or cache.
Very common 'feature' now for social media websites and apps to read your browser cache content to tailor advertising accordingly, if you 'log in' to a particular flavor of browser (such as Firefox or Chrome) then it is also likely your browser profile contains metadata that would feed advertising widgets and the like.
Not sure about voice biometrics though (as in listen to your phone calls and then tailor advertising based on the content), pretty sure that breaches a bunch of privacy laws without appropriate pre-authority (such as a warrant)?
Last edited by solace; 15 November 2016, 03:23 PM.
I searched for something on my phone and the Facebook adds on my pc matched my search.
I don't have Facebook installed on my phone and wasn't logged in to Google on my pc.
I'm not sure how it knew.
I have heard people with iPhones say that they have been talking about something and then get targeted adds for it. Implying that their phones are listening. Some apps always run the microphone to give faster start up times but they claim they don't do anything with the info captured.
Adblocker is a must these days if you want to browse the internet without being inundated with advertisements.
A lot of sites will now notice that you have an adblocker enabled and either give a pop up asking for you to switch of the adblocker (so they make ad revenue) or in some cases, lock you out of the site until you disable the adblocker.
I usually switch off adblock for my favourite youtube channels and their videos so they get the ad revenue but otherwise leave it on for everything else.
Some of these advertisements are by Google and it tracks what you are searching and what you might be thinking of purchasing. It then puts those things in your usual browsing.That's why I use Adblocker!
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