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Targeted ads that follow you around on the web need to be banned entirely. My aunt can predict what health issues or products my mom searches for on Google, bec

Targeted ads that follow you around on the web need to be banned entirely. My aunt can predict what health issues or products my mom searches for on Google, because Facebook almost immediately serves her ads related to my mom's searches and browsing history. Targeted ads are turned off in my mom's Google account, and she does not have a Facebook account. The two identities were linked together by the ad industry when in 2014 my aunt logged into Facebook once from my mom's previous tablet, and that's when they gave my aunt a fifth sense. What's even more frustrating is that the current tablet runs Blokada for host based blocking, and there's uBlock Origin in the browser, but none of that matters, my aunt will call her to point out what shoes my mom was reading about days before.

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vidarh 5y ago
If I was your mom, I'm not sure I could've resisted trolling your aunt with a sudden burst of bizarre searches in that case.
eterevsky 5y ago
Google most certainly doesn't share user's search history with Facebook. There may be some tracking on the sites themselves, that allows Facebook to detect user's interests. However I don't think it's supposed to use one persons web history to show ads to another user. What might be happening is that they are using some common accounts or a shared browser that leaks the data between them.
- dessant 5y ago
  No, they don't use common accounts or devices, and they don't connect from the same network.
Vinnl 5y ago
Unfortunately the Greens proposed that, but it didn't make it: https://twitter.com/kimvsparrentak/status/1484116335097438213 https://twitter.com/kimvsparrentak/status/148411633509743821...
anovikov 5y ago
If the industry was that smart, i don't think i'd be getting the truly insane, ridiculous ads. Garden furniture going on sale in Brno? I've never been to Brno (passed through it 3-4 times by train or bus, never getting off), and i don't own a house anywhere to need garden furniture, for that matter. Private jet charters? I wish i was that rich. Senior living homes, hearing aids? My father climbed Elbrus this summer. The list goes on... Apart from remarketing ads - like if i visited online store for telescopes, i see astronomy-related ads (plus yes, astrology-related too lol) for a while - almost all other ads i'm seeing online are truly bizarre and have nothing in common with what i want to buy. At the same time, badly needed things that the search engines could provide, are sorely missing - for example, many convenient flight connections are searchable manually online - by combining separate flight legs myself - but missing from online searches on sites like skyscanner...
bigodbiel 5y ago
Facebook's shadow profiles are much more pervarsive and insiduous, it is literally taken from __open__ source data bases and compiled to try to attach existing nodes. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-profiles-zuckerberg-congress-data-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-...

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vidarh 5y ago

If I was your mom, I'm not sure I could've resisted trolling your aunt with a sudden burst of bizarre searches in that case.

eterevsky 5y ago

Google most certainly doesn't share user's search history with Facebook. There may be some tracking on the sites themselves, that allows Facebook to detect user's interests. However I don't think it's supposed to use one persons web history to show ads to another user. What might be happening is that they are using some common accounts or a shared browser that leaks the data between them.

dessant 5y ago
No, they don't use common accounts or devices, and they don't connect from the same network.

Vinnl 5y ago

Unfortunately the Greens proposed that, but it didn't make it: https://twitter.com/kimvsparrentak/status/1484116335097438213 https://twitter.com/kimvsparrentak/status/148411633509743821...

anovikov 5y ago

If the industry was that smart, i don't think i'd be getting the truly insane, ridiculous ads. Garden furniture going on sale in Brno? I've never been to Brno (passed through it 3-4 times by train or bus, never getting off), and i don't own a house anywhere to need garden furniture, for that matter. Private jet charters? I wish i was that rich. Senior living homes, hearing aids? My father climbed Elbrus this summer. The list goes on... Apart from remarketing ads - like if i visited online store for telescopes, i see astronomy-related ads (plus yes, astrology-related too lol) for a while - almost all other ads i'm seeing online are truly bizarre and have nothing in common with what i want to buy. At the same time, badly needed things that the search engines could provide, are sorely missing - for example, many convenient flight connections are searchable manually online - by combining separate flight legs myself - but missing from online searches on sites like skyscanner...

bigodbiel 5y ago

Facebook's shadow profiles are much more pervarsive and insiduous, it is literally taken from __open__ source data bases and compiled to try to attach existing nodes. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-profiles-zuckerberg-congress-data-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-...