[ARC5] Speaking of Cautionary Tales

[J. Forster]

A good reason NOT to use Chrome!

-John

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> 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
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  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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