[ExI] privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

I understand that I will get ads on Google, on web sites, on my computer
and in email, though I did not give my email address to Aquasana.  What I
don't get is how the newspaper got the info that I was on Amazon and the
Aquasana web site.  They have not responded to my inquiry, nor has
Aquasana.  Aquasana will get punished if they don't respond by my buying
another product and letting them know that.

bill w

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:57 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:09 AM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* [ExI] privacy
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> Just after Spike's revelation that he had received ads related to his
> conversation with his wife in a car, presumably picked up by his mobile, I
> went shopping for under the counter water filter systems - Aquasana, for
> one.
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> Then I logged on the the Clarion Ledger - local paper - and found a big ad
> for Aquasana.  I have never seen an ad for water filter systems anywhere,
> so I assume this is not coincidence.
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> Just how did they get the information?  I used my Chromebook to go to
> Amazon and to the Aquasana web site.
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> Have any of you experience anything like this?  Or like Spike's?  Could
> Aquasana have put a cookie, or something like it, on my computer that the
> newspaper site read?
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> This is really creepy.
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> bill w
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> BillW of course if you shop online for anything, you will be pummeled
> mercilessly for weeks by purveyors of that product.  Nothing particularly
> creepy about that: the reason the WWW grew and prospered is that there are
> skerjillions of ways to hawk one’s wares there.  So there was a lotta lotta
> money behind its explosive growth.  Cool!
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> What I want to know now is if one enters the name of a product into the
> Google line without hitting Return, will it figure out what I was looking
> to buy?  I have a Google window open right now.  I enter “Wool sweater for
> sale” but I did not hit Enter.  I will leave it there for a few minutes,
> then delete it without ever entering any site or search list.  Then I will
> see if I get wool sweater spam.
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> spike
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