A social media advertising person explained that to me recently. Search for something on google or go to a website and the ads for matching products follow you around. There's a name for it that I have forgotten ..
-------- Original message -------- From: Greg Keogh <[email protected]> Date: To: ozDotNet <[email protected]> Subject: [OT] Facebook advertising Hmmm! I just went into Facebook for the first time in a couple of weeks and I happened to notice an Ad at the top right for a DNS service. Now isn't that suspicious, as I just happened to mention this topic in the group last week and I've sent a few emails on the subject. Where did it get the data to make the association, from my Gmail, from forum posts, or where? I don't know why more people are scared out of their pants by things like this -- Greg K
