Adsense is stalking YA!

Funny thing.

On Friday I spent about 3 hours looking up Drum sets for sale for a Christmas present I am thinking of getting. I went the ebay, random classifieds, and did a lot of google searches for companies.

Now all weekend long and today every single google ad is a "drum sets for sale" one. I'm talking EVERYWHERE. They have not changed at all. I did a test 5 minutes ago and went in a Saddam info website and it was STILL there.

Google needs to cool their ads a little bit.

 

Just click on one of them and they will cool it.

 

Yeah.. all third party advertisement companies stalk our online interests. But you can simply avoid that.I have written a post about this in my blog. Will I get banned if I post that link here?

 

I believe, if you log out of your google account, flush the browser of cookies or just delete your history, this should not happen on restart of the browser, this is my experience with this.

 

They just want you to buy it already.

Happened to me once. But hey, it might have happened a lot more, I just don't even notice those ads. I'm starting to wonder whether it is just because I'm in IM myself or is it a common thing. Do average people really click often on ads in general....

 

Its a well known fact that Google AdSense shows ads based on a user's interests - the kinds of sites you look for in Google or what Google Analytics records from your IP.
A publisher can disable this options in Google AdSense (to show ads based on user interests) but how many publishers do that?

 

How are they even doing that? Cookies? IP tracking?

 

they have a lot of power , this Christmas its gonna be crazy with them google ads

 

Yes. They compose a list of categories of interest that are associated with a specific cookie of a user. They call it behavioral advertising, and even give you an ability to set up preferences for which ads you are intrested and which you do not wan to see in the future. http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

 

I don't really know 'bout that. Like I said: I'm sure I'm not the only person in which's visual field ads don't even enter 99% of the time...

 

It isn't google or adsense doing this, but a 3rd party cookie. I did know the name of the cookie but now I can't remember. Maybe someone else has experience this and can tell us.

 

Double click dart cookie?

You can opt-out here:

http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

It's not a third party cookie, they bought that tech some time ago...

 

You can also run your browser with cookies turned off. But keep that in mind, you probably won't be able to log into your emails, digitalpoints forum, facebook etc..

 

I noticed That too, why would google show ads that interest me if they don't want me to click my ads?

 

They want you to click other poeple's ads, not your own ads.

 

I think I never clicked on any google ad ever since I joined adsense program. I don't even click on sponsored results in google search.