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That is pretty hard to stop. Check for adserver in your registry. All you have to do is to go looking for a recipe and you are theirs. It seems that they will throw almost anything at you just to see what you respond to. I use Nortons (in bed with Microsoft) and SpyHunter and RegHunter. Pretty much tells you what is going on.
Roll with it. Something has to pay for free internet access. Not worth fighting...
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"Every Google add has an icon in the upper right corner where you can tell it to stop that particular ad."
Not necessarily. If you are not logged in, if you are behind a VPN, if you have disabled personal ad preferences, and perhaps even if you are normally logged in, you may get an answer that they'll TRY not to show you that ad again. It doesn't always work.
Johanan-
DuckDuckGo is not a browser, it is just a search engine.
Your internet provider is the first party that may be tracking you. They normally know every site that you have visited, and whether it is Google or Verizon, they compile that list and use it to set ad preferences for you. Even if you opt out of ads (i.e. from Google) you can opt out of 100 ad sources, and come back a month later to your privacy settings and you'll find 50 new ones that you were opted into instead.
If you want privacy, or any semblance of it, you have to do things like use the TOR "onion" browser, or at least use Opera which will give you a free VPN connection, which breaks some tracking. AND basically, disable all active scripting including Java, JavaScript, and ActiveX. AND, when a forum (like this one) says "Log in using Facebook?" NEVER use that option, because it will place a cookie on your computer that allows Facebook to track every place you've been, between that log-in session and your next contact with the Facebook empire.
And that's a short and incomplete list. You'll also be stigmatized and sometimes shut out, because some sites refuse VPM connections, while others go into Captcha loops when VPN is used, and many sites (stupidly) post videos using JavaScript when a simple MP4 file could be used.
It ain't pretty out there, if you want any privacy or simple security.
And then when you've set up everything the way you want it? Most web sites sell ad space to brokers. The brokers only know the link they are supposed to place. The folks who hire the brokers to place their ads? Yeah, they sometimes change the page behind the link, so the broker thinks they are placing an ad for kitten videos, and a kittykat club pops up instead. Solving that requires human monitors, or more rigid ad policies. It just never gets easier.
"Every Google add has an icon in the upper right corner where you can tell it to stop that particular ad."
Not necessarily. If you are not logged in, if you are behind a VPN, if you have disabled personal ad preferences, and perhaps even if you are normally logged in, you may get an answer that they'll TRY not to show you that ad again. It doesn't always work.
Johanan-
DuckDuckGo is not a browser, it is just a search engine.
Your internet provider is the first party that may be tracking you. They normally know every site that you have visited, and whether it is Google or Verizon, they compile that list and use it to set ad preferences for you. Even if you opt out of ads (i.e. from Google) you can opt out of 100 ad sources, and come back a month later to your privacy settings and you'll find 50 new ones that you were opted into instead.
If you want privacy, or any semblance of it, you have to do things like use the TOR "onion" browser, or at least use Opera which will give you a free VPN connection, which breaks some tracking. AND basically, disable all active scripting including Java, JavaScript, and ActiveX. AND, when a forum (like this one) says "Log in using Facebook?" NEVER use that option, because it will place a cookie on your computer that allows Facebook to track every place you've been, between that log-in session and your next contact with the Facebook empire.
And that's a short and incomplete list. You'll also be stigmatized and sometimes shut out, because some sites refuse VPM connections, while others go into Captcha loops when VPN is used, and many sites (stupidly) post videos using JavaScript when a simple MP4 file could be used.
It ain't pretty out there, if you want any privacy or simple security.
And then when you've set up everything the way you want it? Most web sites sell ad space to brokers. The brokers only know the link they are supposed to place. The folks who hire the brokers to place their ads? Yeah, they sometimes change the page behind the link, so the broker thinks they are placing an ad for kitten videos, and a kittykat club pops up instead. Solving that requires human monitors, or more rigid ad policies. It just never gets easier.
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Well no. An advertiser spending money on poorly targeted ads will get cranky because nobody is spending money with them. They'll quickly revisit the parameters for their spend. If we're going to be blasted by ads, they might as well be properly targeted so that they're for things that might be of interest to us. The power of Google is that it can track everything we do here, add it to everything we do literally everywhere else on the Internet and come up with a damn accurate picture of who we are and what our likes and interests are.
So if the OP is getting ads for "adult stuff" (and he never really said what those ads were and "adult" can mean a lot of different things) then the Chairman is right... Someone at his IP address is doing something that suggests those ads are of interest to him. Ya know, like confirming he's male, has a pulse, and stays up later then his wife.
My son is a partner in a marketing company in Australia that works primarily in the online space. We talk a lot about this kind of stuff (I worked in a more traditional marketing space) and it's amazing how precisely ads can be targeted and how "specific" a profile of a person can be. They spend about $250,000 a month with Facebook alone for profiles of us. It's both fascinating and terrifying.
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Well no. An advertiser spending money on poorly targeted ads will get cranky because nobody is spending money with them. They'll quickly revisit the parameters for their spend. If we're going to be blasted by ads, they might as well be properly targeted so that they're for things that might be of interest to us. The power of Google is that it can track everything we do here, add it to everything we do literally everywhere else on the Internet and come up with a damn accurate picture of who we are and what our likes and interests are.
So if the OP is getting ads for "adult stuff" (and he never really said what those ads were and "adult" can mean a lot of different things) then the Chairman is right... Someone at his IP address is doing something that suggests those ads are of interest to him. Ya know, like confirming he's male, has a pulse, and stays up later then his wife.
My son is a partner in a marketing company in Australia that works primarily in the online space. We talk a lot about this kind of stuff (I worked in a more traditional marketing space) and it's amazing how precisely ads can be targeted and how "specific" a profile of a person can be. They spend about $250,000 a month with Facebook alone for profiles of us. It's both fascinating and terrifying.
OP (me) is a straight married woman. LOL.
I mentioned this in a previous post but I’ll post it again here. The adult ad I saw was for a male performance supplement, with a picture of a well-endowed and scantily dressed female (you know, the usual). That was yesterday. This morning, the first ad I saw was for gay cruises.
I put 2 and 2 together and figured it was because I was reading, clicking on, and searching recent news articles related to serial killer Bruce McArthur (he killed 8 men who had ties to the Gay Village and put their bodies in planters), as well as the Toronto-based law student/escort Nadia Guo. I suppose reading those made Google think I was a gay male in need of supplements!
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OP (me) is a straight married woman. LOL.
I mentioned this in a previous post but I’ll post it again here. The adult ad I saw was for a male performance supplement, with a picture of a well-endowed and scantily dressed female (you know, the usual). That was yesterday. This morning, the first ad I saw was for gay cruises.
I put 2 and 2 together and figured it was because I was reading, clicking on, and searching recent news articles related to serial killer Bruce McArthur (he killed 8 men from the Gay Village and put their bodies in planters), as well as the Toronto-based law student/escort Nadia Guo. I suppose reading those made Google think I was a gay male in need of supplements!
Haha... Ya, you're likely right!
Do I know you? And apologies for mis-characterizing you... DogBowl sounds so manly! ;-)
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