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Most of the ads I get can be linked to a search I’ve done - at least peripherally. Others are products or related products that I’ve recently shopped for. I’m more fascinated by it than troubled. Oddly I don’t get any that seem related to my old fart status. Perhaps my biking, hiking and kayaking has convinced the algorithms that I’m much younger!
Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos are here on our website.
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But my original intent with the post was just to see if anybody else was seeing the ads. I don't see any ads. Firefox browser with Ad-Block-Plus is my absolute best friend on the entire internet.
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But my original intent with the post was just to see if anybody else was seeing the ads. I don't see any ads. Firefox browser with Ad-Block-Plus is my absolute best friend on the entire internet. Good point. I should probably install an ad blocker... but I have to admit that a lot of ads are more entertaining (to me) than the articles they accompany.
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I’ve run the best ad blockers for years. They are very effective against popups not so much for embedded ads, e.g., Facebook, etc.
Our albums and singles are on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and more. If interested search on Janice Merritt. Thanks! Our Videos are here on our website.
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I have etymotic active ear filters for my ears while gigging. They turn down the volume when we get loud and turn the attenuation off when the volume is low. That way I can hear the customers speak between sets if they are further back in the room. They use hearing aid batteries. Years ago I searched for some at a better price than at the local retail outlets, and for months I got ads for hearing aids, toilet booster seats, walkers, and items that elderly disabled people use. So I thought I'd change things and started searching for a new bikini for my wife. That didn't work -- perhaps because I didn't buy one (she would never buy one without trying it on first). What did work is this: 1) No more chrome browser - Chrome is voluntary spyware - there are other options, Firefox and Opera are the two leading alt-chrome browsers. Opera uses the chrome engine but leaves out the chrome tracking, Firefox uses an entirely different 'engine' 2) No more Google search engine - more voluntary spyware - I use StartPage instead - it uses Google, but going through StartPage strips all the cookies and other identifying info and replaces it with theirs, so google thinks you are StartPage, not yourself 3) I use a VPN on my computer, so my ISP doesn't know where I'm going to sell my personal info to advertisers 4) I browse in the 'private mode' and set my browser to clear cookies when I close the browser I still get ads, but they are no longer targeted to me, so there is greater variety. I do understand that the price of having free things means ads, and I nothing against that. I remember in the days when I watched TV there were ads, the radio gets interrupted by ads and so on. What I do not like is advertisers knowing more about me than the NSA and FBI  - or in the case of the batteries, making assumptions about me that are false and then selling that info to other advertisers. You can't be private on the Internet, but you can minimize what people know about you. Insights and incites by Notes
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Charlie, I'm not worried about my wife. She has a great sense of humor. After all she married me! AND stayed with you for what, 50 years, despite many opportunities to bail out?
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Unless you are looking to buy uranium to build smart bombs, who cares? Do you do anything nefarious that you need to hide? I use Ad Block Plus on Chrome and I never see ads. Also You Tube Blocker so I don't see ads. As far as anybody "knowing" about me, my life is an open book and if they asked, I would tell them!
Those trackers track your IP, not you. They know that xxx.xx.xx.xxx visited their site and when xxx.xx.xx.xxx gets online again they send an ad. VPNs hide your LOCAL IP address, the 192.168.xx.xx or the 10.10.xx.xx but your end connection point, your WAN IP, is going to be the same unless you hard reset your modem. And even then, it will revert to the last known IP unless you stay offline for 24 hours and 1 minute.
Way too much paranoia out there about "privacy". Nobody's life is private.
There is one member here who uses a pseudonym. However, he also has a web page. With minimal internet knowledge and skill in using resources, I can find out anything I want about anybody. I can find their home address, determine what county that address is in, then visit the court system for that county and get their record if they have one. (It is called PUBLIC record for a reason.)
There was a point where people fought for freedom of information, so far that there is a Freedom Of Information Act. Now that information is free, there is a lot of whining about how much information is out there. Pick a team and play for it.
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Unless you are looking to buy uranium to build smart bombs, who cares? Do you do anything nefarious that you need to hide? I feel that way too. Ad-Block on my browsers is all I use. With all the big companies that have your info and the foreign hackers that steal it all, no one can keep their information completely private. "Suck it up buttercup!"
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And they don't know YOU. They know that a computer from your WAN IP visited the web looking for a hockey stick for your kid, and every time your IP comes online your cookie says "This is the guy who looked for a hockey stick" and you get sports related ads. Or coffee. Or cars. Or music gear. Nobody knows YOU specifically. IF that truly bothers you, never go online again, because it's here to stay. Everybody who gets zinged and has data stolen had it happen because they allowed something from outside to come into their computer. Whether they knew it or not, something entered the computer.
Remember that no matter what you do, what is visible online is your WAN IP, the one that connects from your ISP out. Nobody here is evil and does anything to draw attention that would lead to the FBI knocking on their door.
Well, maybe RHARV, since it's always his fault....
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