(07-05-2024, 05:28 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: I was just on here to respond to one post. When I got off the site my add tracker blocker jumped up almost 100 points. The biggest spike I've seen by far.
Last night I did the same exact thing and got nothing.
Today it jumped up by 87 blocked items.
You've probably got a "super cookie" or "flash cookie" hiding on your hard drive somewhere. They do not live in your browser cookie cache, so clearing cache or clearing cookies doesn't get rid of them - you have to hunt them down and manually kill them.
They do not have a size limit or a time limit - they will just sit there and record everywhere you go on the internet, and phone home about it.
Google has web crawler bots crawling all over the internet to index pages for their search engine... but they also read posts when they can get in to read them, and when the super cookies phone home, Google then has the post you read (or in some entertaining cases, wrote), and Google will correlate that with the URL of the page you visited or post you wrote in order to squeeze more information about you and your interests to target ads at you.
Yes, Google bots read internet posts - ever noticed how they will put a snippet with a search link so you can be sure that's really what you're looking for? You don't really think that short snippet is all of it they read, do you?
The internet is a nefarious place, it seems. I would recommend researching "super cookies" and find out how to seek and destroy them, and also block Flash from running in your browser so no more super cookies get set.
Adobe has a little flash applet on their site that will allow you to work with the super cookies and bend them to your will. Unfortunately, it's a FLASH applet, and since I've blocked flash from running, it won't display for me.
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