[Leica] Image stolen from Lluis?

[leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)]

There are several versions of advertising blocking browser add-ons 
available.
"They" still collect the info, but you never see the ads.

I haven't been bothered with ads for years now.

Jay

On 7/1/2014 11:45 AM, Howard Ritter wrote:
> OK, I think I've figured it out. The largest image in the screen shot I 
> posted, the man and the woman, appeared yesterday in full-frame form when 
> I was clicking through Lluis's flickr album. Now I realize that when I do 
> so, every few images I get an advertisement, something I had never noticed 
> before. At first glance, if you click through rapidly, the image in the ad 
> could be mistaken for an album image. Not having realized that the image 
> was an ad, I was taken aback to see the same image in an ad on Yahoo! 
> today, and now I'm realizing that a number of the ads I encountered in 
> flickr also appear in my Yahoo! window.
>
> This is surely targeted advertising, as the ads are not placed only by big 
> and wealthy companies such as might dominate multiple streams. Something 
> in my cookies folder, or demographics file somewhere, identifies me as a 
> likely target for certain ads, and Yahoo, or my ISP, or someone, gets paid 
> to place the appropriate ad in front of my eyeballs. You have to admire 
> the cleverness of this, but it's annoying and intrusive. I noticed this 
> sort of thing once before?after I had done a search and a few site visits 
> for some product, can't recall what, I started seeing banner and sidebar 
> ads for this kind of product in all manner of web activities, and it went 
> on for days before, I suppose, becoming too non-current and being replaced 
> by random background ads.
>
> Sorry for the false alarm. But since I was able to think of it, and the 
> technology exists to bring it about, expect to see it eventually: an image 
> that you viewed recently will appear as a personalization of an ad on a 
> website you're viewing, in the hope of attracting a click from you. Ain't 
> technology grand?
>
> ?howard
>