Creepy Google Ads (There is no privacy)
Earlier today I was messing around with Vistaprint and thinking about ordering a couple of coffee mugs with my JM Consulting logo on it. That’s all. I never ordered anything or put in any personal information. All I did was upload a couple different alterations of my logo to see how they looked.
Right after this, I opened a new tab and went to YouTube to watch a video. A few seconds in the banner ad pops up and it says, “Coffee Mugs for Sale.”
!!!!!
What?! Coincidence? Maybe.
How did it know? Did it know? I was using Safari, not Google Chrome, but if the ad did know what I was just looking at a few moments ago, how did it get that information? Did it somehow track the IP address to the other web site?
I have no idea how all that stuff works, but that ad gave me the heeby jeebies. It’s like the All Seeing Eye in Lord of the Rings: there’s no hiding from Google’s ads!
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