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Old 12-12-2009, 09:00 AM
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CRH
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
Originally Posted by Admin
There is so much personalization in the online ad industry now that it's impossible to replicate what you are seeing.

Aside from the content of the page, they factor in the pages you've seen before, your location, other sites you visited, demographic information and so on.

So two people could be looking at the same page and see different ads.

In any case, I blocked that particular domain so we shouldn't have any ads from them any more.
WHOA! The book 1984 might have been a bit off in the year - but not in the idea that someone somewhere can access almost anything and everything about a person.

I appreciate your mentioning how much info can be gathered from little bits posted here and there.
Really kind of scary, creepy, isn't it???
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