Kook
A 'maker', not a 'taker'!
.....to me on the internet.
This morning, about 11:30 AM, I was talking to my best bud, a guy I've known for 38 years, on the phone. He wanted to know what was available, at reasonable cost, to build a nice stereo system. I went over to Amazon.com and starting reading some specs to him of some Sony stereo gear, a receiver and some speakers. One of the speakers I looked at was a model SS-6000 floor standing speakers. Really nice, and they are marked down right now from $250 to $193. He said he'll think about it.
A few minutes ago, I got on the 'net to check a political forum (Lucianne.com). Well, bless my heart, all over the page were posted ads for THAT EXACT SAME MODEL OF SPEAKER! Over and over, ads from Amazon displaying the sale at $193, maybe 8 or so copies, almost every ad space, although there was an ad for State Farm and another for some hand lotion.
So my question is, how the heck is this happening? Two separate websites, two separate sessions, etc. How is the connection made? Is the Lucianne.com website reading my cookies? How could they find out exactly what I looked at and then load up the page I downloaded with ads?
I guess I understanding of all this is marginal. I had no idea just how much our privacy is compromised. Looking at speakers is one thing, what else does the machine know about us?
Kookster
This morning, about 11:30 AM, I was talking to my best bud, a guy I've known for 38 years, on the phone. He wanted to know what was available, at reasonable cost, to build a nice stereo system. I went over to Amazon.com and starting reading some specs to him of some Sony stereo gear, a receiver and some speakers. One of the speakers I looked at was a model SS-6000 floor standing speakers. Really nice, and they are marked down right now from $250 to $193. He said he'll think about it.
A few minutes ago, I got on the 'net to check a political forum (Lucianne.com). Well, bless my heart, all over the page were posted ads for THAT EXACT SAME MODEL OF SPEAKER! Over and over, ads from Amazon displaying the sale at $193, maybe 8 or so copies, almost every ad space, although there was an ad for State Farm and another for some hand lotion.
So my question is, how the heck is this happening? Two separate websites, two separate sessions, etc. How is the connection made? Is the Lucianne.com website reading my cookies? How could they find out exactly what I looked at and then load up the page I downloaded with ads?
I guess I understanding of all this is marginal. I had no idea just how much our privacy is compromised. Looking at speakers is one thing, what else does the machine know about us?
Kookster
