[ExI] privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

dave sill wrote:  BTW, if this kind of targeted marketing bothers you or
you just don't want Google to know that much about you, try switching your
default search engine to DuckDuckGo. I find that it works very well.

Good. Thanks. Would it help to use such things as Anonymizer?  Will that
cut out the ads?  bill w

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 8:24 AM Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:25 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> If you Googled "aquasana", then the newspaper could have advertised
> through Google. Aquasana pays Google to promote their brand and Google pays
> the newspaper to display the ad. If you shopped for Aquasana on Amazon,
> then the newspaper is probably running ads for Amazon. If you neither
> Googled it nor shopped for it on Amazon, then Aquasana probably made
> arrangements with another marketer. If you use Facebook on your phone they
> probably know everything you've ever done on it.
>
> BTW, if this kind of targeted marketing bothers you or you just don't want
> Google to know that much about you, try switching your default search
> engine to DuckDuckGo. I find that it works very well.
>
> -Dave
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