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Apologies in advance if this is a Noob question............
One of my kids is thinking of buying a Huawei Matebook and we were talking yesterday about whether she was going to get one as part of Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Another of my kids was in the room and listening in.
Today the other kid starts getting advertys on her FB feed about Huawei Matebooks. She's never googled them, she's not even been aware that Huawei did laptops prior to the conversation. So why would FB suddenly start sending her Huawei Matebook adverts?
One of my kids is thinking of buying a Huawei Matebook and we were talking yesterday about whether she was going to get one as part of Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Another of my kids was in the room and listening in.
Today the other kid starts getting advertys on her FB feed about Huawei Matebooks. She's never googled them, she's not even been aware that Huawei did laptops prior to the conversation. So why would FB suddenly start sending her Huawei Matebook adverts?
Zoon said:
Funnily enough I mentioned a Mercedes GLS this morning in the office and my colleague started getting ads for them on his Facebook feed!
I don't even use Facebook
Exactly the same situation! The child who is after a Matebook doesn't use FB. The child who didn't even know what a Matebook was suddenly starts getting Matebook adverts on her FB.I don't even use Facebook
p.s. Don't you think the GLS looks a bit....ugly?
Countdown said:
Exactly the same situation! The child who is after a Matebook doesn't use FB. The child who didn't even know what a Matebook was suddenly starts getting Matebook adverts on her FB.
p.s. Don't you think the GLS looks a bit....ugly?
You and your kids are sitting at home. You have one IP address. One person in the family starts browsing for Matebooks. Unless you are all signed into Chrome, Google just know that a machine in the house is browsing for Matebooks. Thus the rest of the machines in the house will get targeted for ads. p.s. Don't you think the GLS looks a bit....ugly?
No one is listening. You’re giving information to Google and they are using it to advertise to you. If you don’t like this then a combination of Adblock and Privacy Badger will eliminate all of it.
What gets me is that the technology is so dumb really. It only advertises stuff to you that you have already researched. For example, a few years ago I bought a shipping container. Used Chrome to research it, Gmail to order it. Did I get relevant ads? No, I got ads for more containers. Don’t want more containers, I’ve already bought three. What I actually want is industrial racking .....
Countdown said:
Doesn't each device have a different IP address?
The router will allocate private IP addresses so it knows where to send what information but the internet facing side of the router will have an IP address which is shared across all devices accessing from that network. It's that IP address that providers see and means it's shared, generally, across a household. 
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