You get ads targeted specifically to you almost everywhere you go online

[Lucinda]

I have severe health issues and often read DU in bed on my tablet.
I don't login on my tablet, yet see ads based on my browsing history.

TV ad buys happen based on demographics.
It is, and has been, happening all around us for a long, long time now.

If you didn't support Hillary based upon social media ads, or because of news features, it's on you.
It was pretty easy to find the truth, and in fact, many people posted here pushing back against the fake stuff all throughout the campaigns.

FB is a tool for me. I use it, and take responsibility for making my information as secure as possible.

It's a really really painful day for me, so I am not going to respond to anyone trying to argue.
Hopefully this made some sense...I'm pretty drugged up and just finally am able to get out of bed for the day.

FB should do better.
So should people who believe what they read online without doing their homework.

<3
Lucinda


Editing to say that I have been posting here since circa 2004. It is always awful during the primaries. It is, unfortunately, what DU does.

[FarCenter]

1. First, install an ad blocker in your browser. Second, use an incognito browser window.

I use Adblock Plus in Chrome. https://adblockplus.org/


In Chrome, Control + Shift + N opens a new incognito browser window. This accepts things like cookies while you browse, but when you close the browser window, they are all discarded. This works particularly well on sites like the NY Times and Washington Post, which allow a few free news stories before they block you and ask for money.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. You are entirely right, my dear Lucinda...

I've noticed ads that targeted me, and they've been happening for a long time. I find it amusing, and I never shop on those.

I hope you will soon feel much better...

[LanternWaste]

3. This morning, it seems as though a handful of hipsters suddenly discovered commercial branding.

This morning, it seems as though a handful of heartfelt though hapless hipsters suddenly discovered commercial branding for the very first time, not realizing that it's something that's been going on since the praecones in Rome were shilling for Eritrean barley during the Triumvirate.

They way these guys are proselytizing, they seem to be of the mind that if they eat Count Chocula for breakfast due to a TV commercial, everyone else is spooning down a bowl and being manipulated by contrived sentiment as well.

[gvstn]

4. It happens all the time.

I was looking for silk long johns about a month ago and now get ads with more than half naked guys on every site I go to, including DU. Nothing wrong with half-naked guys but how does every site know what I was shopping for a month ago?

[FarCenter]

5. Clear your cookies and see if that helps

In Chrome, its Control + Shift + Delete to bring up the clear browsing data tab.

Check the box next to "cookies and other site data" and delete.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Word of caution...

Winter Silks is a company that sells long john, 2 piece wear, but they do not hold up very well under normal wear and care.
If you find a really good place for those items. I would love to know about it.

[FSogol]

8. I get mine at REI, but if you want a cheaper option, use Sierra Trading Post

https://www.sierratradingpost.com/

[gvstn]

13. I actually liked my Winter Silks although a bit expensive.

I actually bought some sort of similar (but not silk) long-johns at SEARS. They seem to hold up very well and were only about $15.00. Better than other ones I have tried.

[mythology]

12. It's not the site, it's the advertiser

There are relatively few advertising companies and they buy data from sites. A site like Facebook doesn't just track you on Facebook. They track you on every page with a like button.

https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/all-the-ways-facebook-tracks-you-that-you-might-not-kno-1795604150

[NCTraveler]

6. I have little problem with responsible directed advertising. Including political.

The advertising needs to be directly related to the actions of an individual and from readily available information. l don't have a problem if algorithms and the like are used to scour for this information. When done ethically, it's an extension of directed advertising that has been done by mail for a long long time.

[herding cats]

9. This was specific psychologically directed propaganda

Which was masked as news in many cases and didn't have the "This Ad was paid for by blah-blah" required by law.


I hope you feel better soon!

[backtoblue]

11. +1

They passed ethical lines and exploited psychological predistributions into action.

[displacedtexan]

10. We're not just talking about ads, unfortunately.

"News" items, like 'Hillary Has A Stroke While Walking To Her Car' and 'Democrats Run Child Sex Ring in DC Pizza Business Basement' are a much bigger part of this Cambridge Analytica scanal than political ads. The online bots have been spreading disinformation to gullible wingnuts for years now.

Hope you feel better soon!

[rockfordfile]

14. Facebook is corrupt.

[RandomAccess]

15. This is an advertising practice known as

Retargeting. It works like this on FB (and I'm sure much the same everywhere else):

The advertiser puts a little pixel in its ads that you can't see but which places a cookie on your computer IF/when you visit their website as a result of the ad. Then they (and maybe others) buy ads in all the usual places online that pick up on those target pixels and deliver to you advertising that you're interested in, based on you past browsing history.

I am not keen on this practice, but it's here to stay, probably.

Personally, I use an Ad Blocker in Chrome and rarely see ads. I'm often greeted with a "please won't you whitelist us" when I visit various news sites, and I usually do.

[TwistOneUp]

16. Yes, they do target ads..

For example, Zappos targets ads. So when I leave the Zappos site, I look at men's shoes, etc. That way, the ads that follow me around are for stuff I will never buy.