We are being tracked!

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:23 am

Someone mentioned on here there was a video about the design of the Jerry Can. I took a mental note of it but didn't click on anything. Last night when browsing YouTube on my Firestick guess the first recommendation video I should watch?

Coincidence? I think not.

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:08 pm

I dread to think where the SA80 will take you then.

DWD

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:11 pm

Argyll wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:23 amCoincidence? I think not.

You did not know? it's google that does it, the idea is so they can "show you more suitable adverts" to what you have been looking at. They have been doing it for quite a few years.

etaf · Post by **etaf** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:37 pm

any phone or voice devices - did you talk about it
We have all our devices switched OFF as far as possible for Voice - but talking about a holiday my son was planning, next thing i know i'm getting adverts and all we did was talk - i rechecked all the devices, Sonos, iphones, macbooks etc - and all OFF - but i suspect they are not really OFF

Anything searched on read online - often comes up as adverts now - Screwfix/toolstation/axminster - if i look at anything , will then be in the advertisements on many sites

I even get an email from them saying i was looking at ??? did i mean to carry on a buy - type thing

Axminster - thanks for dropping by email

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:51 pm

Someone-Else wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:11 pm
Argyll wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:23 amCoincidence? I think not.
You did not know? it's google that does it, the idea is so they can "show you more suitable adverts" to what you have been looking at. They have been doing it for quite a few years.

I never Googled it. It showed up on this forum..

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:52 pm

etaf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:37 pm did you talk about it

I might have mentioned it to my dogs during our early morning chat

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:53 pm

dewaltdisney wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:08 pm I dread to think where the SA80 will take you then.

DWD

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:26 pm

Argyll wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:51 pmI never Googled it. It showed up on this forum.

You misunderstood. I never said you did google it. I said it was google that did it.

Google "watches" almost everything you do online, the reason being (as I said earlier) so they can show you adverts you may be interested in, the idea of that is so they can charge more / get more people to advertise with them.

FYI YouTube is owned by google

aeromech3 · Post by **aeromech3** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:02 pm

It has gone beyond that. Last week a friend whom is internet mobile security OTT, e-mailed me on my travels to say he had bought a new video cam because he was doing video calls with some mates, knowing his aversion to Apps and such as WhatsApp, I thought only thought he must be using his old skype account. Next day when I opened my phone there was a pop up reminding me I had not used skype recently and needed to log in; I have not used it for about 4 years!! He told me he has not used his either and his mate has a video conference account which he gets a code to join in. He blames it on my Chinese Huawei mobile.
But I'm feeling for the plug in the back of my neck

ahfix · Post by **ahfix** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:07 pm

I am using duckduckgo as my search engine now and see far fewer of the occurrences. Can't stop everything tracking yon but at least it's something.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:48 pm

It was me who put up the jerry can video . I'm not really sure what I was watching but it may have been a video about submarines or the battle of Midway and it appeared on the suggestions list.
I use a touch screen ipad and the worst thing is that it's so easy to click on an advert for something like bikinis when trying to scroll down...
Or at least that's what I tell the wife....

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:03 pm

Now here's a thing. Today I went to a customer to measure up and we got to talking. He told me about the cordless vacuum cleaner and also the Henry he had repaired. I mentioned about one I had that I seem to be having problems getting the brushes for. Not long ago he phoned to say a "how to repair Henry hoover" video was suggested when he went on his tablet. Now we only just chatted ,, no looking on the net or anything , I can only put it down to a surprisingly odd coincidence or thst alexa was listening to our conversation...
Time for a tin foil hat methinks.

Neelix · Post by **Neelix** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:57 pm

Of course we are being tracked, that's what all this technology is used for so they can "attract" sponsors.

For the record I hate all this marketing carp

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:07 pm

i dont use google apart from google earth
my phone set to no location/tracking or whatever its called
no web site gets my location other than for delivery address
i use firefox operating and duck duck go for searches
it has me vaguely based west byfleet mitcham sutton croydon selhurst upper norwood area all 10- 20 miles away from redhill
i dont get suggested adverts as i wont use sites that use adverts

the only place i get adverts is on my aol email page on my phone but just leave 5 emails on the page and scroll it up out off sight before i even look at the page

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 9:09 am

big-all wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:07 pm
i dont get suggested adverts as i wont use sites that use adverts

? But doesn't this site use adverts?. I looked first without logging in and the adverts take up half the page. I linked this site to another forum I use and one poster there was quite dismissive of the adverts here particularly the "trick to cut energy bills" type that appeared top of the page when I wasn't logged in. I seem to recall a thread about just those very adverts some time ago ( posted by ericmark perhaps?).