Is there no privacy?

[anotheoldgit]

Isn't it concerning to see some of one's recent google searches for products, when adverts for similar items pop up from time to time on AnswerBank?

Is this all part of the recent 'cookies' affair, and how does one stop it?

Would 'not allowing cookies' work or would it also affect other things?

[ChuckFickens]

It's a subject that annoys me because it's one of those subjects that gets in the tabloids a lot and generally all you read about it is scaremongering from people that haven't got a clue what they are talking about.

The job of newspapers (and any news service) should be to offer reliable and informed information of subjects from people that know what they are talking about, not to try and raise the public into a state of hysteria over whatever the latest buzzword subject is using people with views that just happen to match the news services agenda but very little actual knowledge on the subject (or none at all).

[bednobs]

what i really don't understand is how these targetted ads make money anyway - they invariably show me thy exact stuff i've ALREADY looked at and decided either to buy or not to buy Showing it to me again isn't going to make me buy it again, or change the reasons why ive decided not to buy.
what would be clever is if it thought to itself "hmm she looked at tena ultra pads, i wonder if she might be interested in some femfresh to help with that problem too - let's show her an ad for it"

[ChuckFickens]

To much information there Boxy!

[bednobs]

nobby!
I'd hate for people to think that boxy was looking at tena plus

[anotheoldgit]

ChuckFickens

/// It's a subject that annoys me because it's one of those subjects that gets in the tabloids a lot and generally all you read about it is scaremongering from people that haven't got a clue what they are talking about. ///

Even if some of us who have little knowledge on a subject, were to read something in the tabloids, why do you think we then turn to AnswerBank so that some more informed person can put us right.

Incidentally I was neither scared or paranoid, I was simply asking, and isn't that the general purpose of this site?