Delving into your privacy

[rov1100]

Do you support AB when it uses pop ups that clearly uses your internet searches and sites that you have been to? Or do you regard it as a breach of your privacy? Google was also in the news about this recently.

[rozia]

Nope i don't support ab doing that, and i don't support other websites that do it either, imagine if a hubby had watched porn, and suddenly wifey comes onto laptop, and a popup comes up about porn, would be one very angry wifey!!!

[ummmm]

I don't think over 18 sites would be allowed to target their ads.

[rov1100]

As you say rozia it could cause a number of household disputes. Many families share a computer and the secrets that could come out especially when the pop ups are known to have been caused by web searching.

[DTCwordfan]

Hopefully those who use google/gmail have been into their accounts setting and deleted the access.....however, I still found them reading an email from the ads streaming alongside....so be warned

[ludwig]

I don't like it but it's probably the price we have to pay for using the internet. Websites are free in monetary terms, but information is valuable, and it's our information we have to pay with.

[Craftypig]

http://hidemyass.com/

[ummmm]

Like what kind of secrets?

[EcclesCake]

Judging by the ads that were popping up the other night my secret is that I am a black lesbian. It is a secret that I have managed to hide very well from Mr Cake, I am confident that he hasn't sussed me yet.

[DTCwordfan]

Bongo goes on his or her porno sex site and next thing is that the household computer, at No 3, Smith Street, pops up adverts for toys that are not age appropriate for little Alicia the next morning.

Mummy or Daddy Bongo see it and WW3 sets in as there is a blazing row as to their "viewing" habits. The next thing is that Bongo should sue Google, but that is now pure speculation, ummmm, as it yet has to happen.

[DTCwordfan]

Your OH isn't called Alfred is he, Eccles? 'Cos who burnt your cakes if you are possessor of "a skin that is much darker than the average Caucasian"?

[ummmm]

Surely porn sites would not be allowed to target ads for that very reason. Most family computers are shared.

[naomi24]

None of those I see are remotely related to my internet searches.

[jno]

as ludwig says, things like AB (and Google) aren't free to run. This is how you pay.