Adsense is Google's product for the phenomena. On this page in gmail, I see ads for Social Media Metrics, Restaurants in Melbourne (one of you guys) Low home rate loans, painter quotes, Debt consolidation, Tafe courses. Ghostery would let me turn it off, but it's ordinary text, not graphics, and to be frank, doesn't annoy me.
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Paul Evrat <p...@paulevrat.com> wrote: > > 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 <g...@mira.net> > Date: > To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > 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 > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
