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Google ads... you creep me the hell out.
It's getting scary. This laptop is 100% photography and netflix... it's all I use it for. Every search is photography related, and a LOT of it.. or movie reviews, etc. But for the past few weeks I've seen a TON of ads about CPAP supplies. **Continuous Positive Airway Pressure** It's a medical device that blows air into your face to combat sleep apnea... and coincidentally... has been my focus at work for the past few weeks (medical field.) I have never... ever... ever even mentioned CPAP on this computer, on any computer on my home network... or on any computer I have ever logged in using my google account, or anything linked... Yet every 10th ad on MM is CPAP related. Skynet has become self aware. I am frightened. Save me. May 20 12 01:33 am Link you went into a site and they dropped cookies in your temp file. probably aspy bot also time to virus check it May 20 12 01:37 am Link the lonely photographer wrote: ? May 20 12 01:50 am Link -JAY- wrote: Google saves your search history with your google account on the net so it doesn't matter which computer you use. You probably searched using google at work for work stuff while logged into your private gmail account. May 20 12 02:20 am Link Google knows me better then I know me. May 20 12 04:42 am Link Doesn't have to be a virus, nor cookies. The algorithms probably can link the computers you use to each other, so anything you do on one gets linked to the other. May 20 12 05:15 am Link Have you talked about CPAP near the laptop? Used a wi-fi enabled phone around that network? Is the microphone enabled? Patents applied for half a decade ago. Have seen comments elsewhere that imply the technology has gone live, at least in some areas. "Advertising can be served on the basis of a sensor that detects temperature, humidity, sound, light or air composition near a device, and ads are served accordingly." Google plans to spy on background noise to bombard you with tailored advertising http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a … noise.html http://www.webpronews.com/google-patent … cy-2012-03 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … calls.html http://www.geekwire.com/2012/google-pat … arget-ads/ GM too. OnStar Files Patents for Minority Report-Style Billboards http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/05/onstar-billboards/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02d_1337197893 http://www.wpxi.com/videos/news/onstar- … ads/vHKhL/ May 20 12 05:48 am Link Have you ever mentioned your work in an email ? Do you have a gmail account or communivate with a gmail account ? It had to be something. You might have just forgotten. May 21 12 05:46 pm Link Michael Bots wrote: That is fucking creepy May 21 12 05:53 pm Link -JAY- wrote: I snitched on you. May 21 12 05:54 pm Link JAE Photography PA wrote: That autocomplete feature on Google is a little creepy at times. It's like it knows what I'm thinking. May 22 12 11:59 am Link -JAY- wrote: you NEVER go to your work web site from home? May 22 12 01:57 pm Link BeautybyGod wrote: never ever ever. I have never uttered the word CPAP outside work. May 22 12 02:47 pm Link If it makes you feel better Jay - both the ad at the top and the one at the bottom when I read this thread were cpap puppies.  May 22 12 02:51 pm Link lol I've got *stop snoring* ads on this page. I've never searched anything to do with snoring, nor do i snore  Odd. May 22 12 02:55 pm Link I don't have any ads on this page because I block all ads at my router. Google will surely find me and kill me. May 22 12 03:11 pm Link John Sweet wrote: ahh the conspiracies! May 22 12 03:13 pm Link Firefox and Adblock Plus, the only way to surf. May 22 12 03:27 pm Link DRImages wrote: That's only because you're thinking the same things that thousands of other people have already thought. May 22 12 03:44 pm Link Satelite spying, user lists, mass databases of even your private records, it's all garbled together to give you a "personalized" Internet experience. Why is it that when someone mentions this, it's dismissed as conspiracy theories? Were this the early 1990s, it could be brushed off, but it's 2012. Technology advances at a rapid rate. Look at Google Maps. Think they're taking pictures of those maps with DSLRs? May 22 12 03:49 pm Link They're coming to get you Barbara May 22 12 07:23 pm Link your email address. your youtube account. your phone number (especially if its the "recovery verification" phone number they convinced you to link with your email) ***YOUR ASSOCIATES THAT ALSO USE GMAIL*** and double especially if you ever use your email on your phone as well ***OR YOUR ASSOCIATES THAT UPLOADED THEIR PHONE CONTACTS TO THEIR GMAIL*** those are the ways the decide to push ads to you. we are far past cookies man May 22 12 07:26 pm Link "Welcome to Hotel California. We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave! " The only way to best it in its own game is to come up with another gmail alias for your surfing purpose, and then use a different browser on the same machine with that alias to surf. May 22 12 08:05 pm Link I use Firefox. How do you stop ads in that? Never tried that feature May 22 12 08:09 pm Link AdelaideJohn1967 wrote: I use adblock lite. Don't see any adds. May 22 12 08:19 pm Link AdelaideJohn1967 wrote: May 22 12 09:33 pm Link |
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