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An interesting thing I've noted on disabling personalized advertisements: My SO, who has personalized ads on and lives in the same household, sees ads based on
by cung 6y ago
An interesting thing I've noted on disabling personalized advertisements: My SO, who has personalized ads on and lives in the same household, sees ads based on my behaviour. So the ads aren't personalized to me, but they certainly are to my SO.
- goliatone 6y agoDepending on the type of ads being served that cross-profile-pollination could lead to info leakage and problematic and/or weird situations. It makes me want to be able to build a fake persona rather than a ghost/anonymous profile
- konjin 6y agoYou're assuming competence that isn't there. It's a shared ip address, there is still plenty of tracking that is dumb enough to assume that it means that you're the same person and that gets thrown into her 'unique fingerprint'. I'm not sure who gets the worst deal from tracking, the companies buying ads or us having to see them.
- conradev 6y agoI can’t seem to find the name, but someone built exactly this: an agent that sits on your computer and generates noise. Visiting random web pages, performing random searches, etc. You’d then get random, non-personalized ads.
- hyperdimension 6y ago"Ad Nauseum" -- I think it's a browser extension. That said, I have heard a few times comments mentioning that it's easy to filter out (from the ad provider side.) I hope not, but if it is, I would only hope someone smarter than I would send a PR. :)
- input_sh 6y agoIn other words, they're personalised to your IP address, but since only your SO has personalised ads turned on, they see what's personalised to both of you.