It's a bit freaky

[Penfold]

It's a bit freaky when one day you may search for, say, Berghaus luggage then the next when you're looking at various websites the adverts are all for luggage.

Happend to me again - I was looking for quilted jackets for my ol' man's birthday and then now all the adverts I see are for jackets.

Who says we ain't being watched

[Benny]

lol, it's one of those things where you know about it, hell I even know very well how it works, but when it hits you in the face? All my adverts are for bathroom furniture or bikes. I miss the days of livejasmin.net

[Luminance]

I played a lot of non graphic internet games, I'm still being overloaded by bitefight, everquest and all those pfft.

[Sn00ks]

Cookies!! Clear them out if you don't need them, unless you ignore the adverts anyway. 'coz if they don't contain what you looked at then they would contain some othe old pants stuff anyway.

[Gorion]

Who says we ain't being watched

Actually, we are being watched.  US have been breaking privacy regulations for quite a while now.

AFAIK, the EU are now "fighting" back on the privacy issue.

[Snokio]

Yup, I'm getting followed around by Halfrauds for car bulbs, have to say, I'm not happy about it :eyebrow:

[Tutonic]

Battlefield 2142 used to collect browsing data, and use it to put targeted adverts on billboards within the game.

Which is just an excuse to post this awesome Penny Arcade strip.

[sulky_uk]

Battlefield 2142 used to collect browsing data, and use it to put targeted adverts on billboards within the game.

Which is just ane xcuse to post this awesome Penny Arcade strip.

lol at the strip

[Luminance]

This sort of things happen more and more too:
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/cdbd398a-8030-4729-aa6a-4fc80d69b8ca.jpg

For some reason the ads are sellected from keywords from the article in question, however, that might not always be so appropriate.