Re: Can ebay send adverts through ip address Quote:
Originally Posted by beaten by dre Hi,
I run a couple of stealth accounts which are fine and have been on the go for 4 years.
On my laptop I used my personal windows (no ebay account on this profile) to look at an item on ebay (nothing related to what I sell).
The next day my brother who lives with me said he was now getting ads and email for what I was looking at on his MacBook.
Is this possible through ip address to do this because it is the only way we are linked (my personal windows user acc uses the home internet provider)
My know my stealths are not in danger but I'm worried about how they do this. | Your metadata, I believe its specifically your cookies, lets say you're looking at holidays.. You may see adverts targeting holidays, its the same across a bunch of sites. Now lets say you clear your cookies, those adverts may stop being targeted at you HOWEVER I believe that if you're logged into a google account its saved, if you read through their TOS this may be a clause you agree to.
Its been like this for a while, why waste money on advertising women's shoes to a male whos browsing the internet to buy a new laptop. Of course people who have paid for adverts within that genre will target you for a higher conversion ratio.
Facebook are really bad for it as well.
Read this - https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...rowser-history
What worry's me is, how is your brother getting adverts for **** you was looking at if he is using a completely different computer? Please be more clear, was you using your brothers computer? Is your brother logged into your eBay? Is your brother logged into your gmail/google account?
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