[ARC5] Speaking of Cautionary Tales

[Don Merz]

Google has linked the world. Google Adwords offers this as a service. Yes, they use info saved somehow (I am no net tech wiz) to bring up ads for stuff you previously searched for. I don't think they are searching your e-mails (but I have no idea--e-mail is not now nor ever was a secure service). Since they own Youtube and have Google search, Gmail, G+, Google Drive and the other Google apps all now tied into one Google login ID, they can collect information from you and deliver those ads across a wide variety of services you might use online. If you also use Google's browser, Chrome, it facilitates this tracking and interaction in some "advanced" ways--whatever that means. The only reason I am aware of this is because my company has been evaluating using adwords. 
Brave New World indeed...
73 de N3RHT



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 From: Robert  Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 7:49 PM
Subject: [ARC5] Speaking of Cautionary Tales
 

Here's a strange one for y'all to ponder.

A few weeks back John Foster and I were exchanging personal e-mails about design of DC to AC inverters.  

Now, for some time I have noted that if I go to some sales websites and look some items, when I go to other news and information websites the pop-up adverts often will be from those same sales websites showing those same items.  Obviously, they are reading the cookies left by those websites and are figuring out what I am interested in and showing me that in the ads.

But very soon after John and mine's discussions on inverters, on one of the news and info websites I got a pop up advert for DC to AC inverters.  I had not gone to any sales website and looked for those items, since John and I were discussing the design of one I had built a long time ago.

So how did that know about that if they were not reading my e-mails as well as the cookies?

Wayne  
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