Internet History Tracking - Proof Positive - RF Cafe Forums

RF Cafe Forums closed its virtual doors in late 2012 mainly due to other social media platforms dominating public commenting venues. RF Cafe Forums began sometime around August of 2003 and was quite well-attended for many years. By 2012, Facebook and Twitter were overwhelmingly dominating online personal interaction, and RF Cafe Forums activity dropped off precipitously. Regardless, there are still lots of great posts in the archive that ware worth looking at. Below are the old forum threads, including responses to the original posts. Here is the full original RF Cafe Forums on Archive.org

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Kirt Blattenberger
 Post subject: Internet History Tracking - Proof Positive
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:02 am 
 
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm
Posts: 878
Location: Erie, PA
Greetings:

Over the last few weeks, I have noticed that almost every Google Ad displayed on websites is related to a website I previously visited. For instance, this morning I was looking at telescopes and accessories on telescopes.com. The next few websites I visited while searching for engineering headlines had at least one Google Ad related to telescopes. Here is an example from the Cellular-News.com website that actually has a telescopes.com ad. If I empty the browser cache, it stops. Coincidence? I don't think so.

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Miss Match
 Post subject: Re: Internet History Tracking - Proof Positive
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:54 am 
 
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Joined: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:58 am
Posts: 5
Hi Kurt. I've noticed that for a long time. Surprised it took you this long. Congress is working on laws to limit or prevent the practice. Try using the Incognito mode of Chrome to prevent it. I think IE might have a stealth mode too.




Posted  11/12/2012