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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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Here's how it works: when you visit a site that wants to show you an ad later, they 'tag' your browser with a small text file called a cookie.
When you move on to a new site that has a space for personalised ads, even one not at all related to the original site, the page will recognise your tracking cookie and show you a 'relevant' ad.
If the site is lucky, the ad reminds you to return.
Maybe you decided those shoes were too expensive on Monday, for example, but you might buy them when you're feeling flush on Friday... if you see them again.
Cookies are linked to a browser - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, whatever you use to get online - and you can delete them.
But it's worth knowing that the way companies serve up targeted ads is growing ever more sophisticated: it's even possible for them to 'follow' users as they use the internet on different devices.
Now, if you were searching for some shoes at work, you might see the same pair when you search at home. Companies do this by a process they call 'triangulation'.
They look for users with very similar patterns of use and conclude that the very similar ones are likely to be the same people. Then they show them 'relevant' ads.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Thanks Fretty
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThanks mate.
Not seen that one before.Thanks for the heads up @Axe_meister.
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