Browsing “leakage”..?

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595Heaven

2,412 posts

78 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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It's annoying I agree!

I'd love to know if there is any way of being able to turn cookies off for stuff that you were searching, but have now bought? I no longer need to see ads for Hive thermostats, as I bought one as an example. Every time I go into Facebook or Twitter, there it is!!!

otolith

56,096 posts

204 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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595Heaven said:
It's annoying I agree!

I'd love to know if there is any way of being able to turn cookies off for stuff that you were searching, but have now bought? I no longer need to see ads for Hive thermostats, as I bought one as an example. Every time I go into Facebook or Twitter, there it is!!!
You can flag the ad as unwanted. Click on the three dots at the top in Facebook.

ging84

8,897 posts

146 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Sign into google or facebook, and your problem is resolved.
If you refuse all the permissions, don't allow cookies etc, they find another less reliable way to identify you, for example client IP and user agent, which if you both have the same device on the same network, will match.
You need to stop trying to fight the system so hard.

ben5575

6,264 posts

221 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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NordVPN, Brave browser, Qwant search engine.

I always seemed to struggle with Duckduckgo giving me the results I wanted and it was a faff on changing countries etc. I've been using Qwant for a couple of months now and it's almost a direct replacement for google (and better than Bing). The only thing it doesn't do (obviously) is return google maps results.

98elise

26,578 posts

161 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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WindyCommon said:
If I go browsing on Louis Vuitton for a birthday present for my wife, I don’t want her FB to be full of Louis Vuitton ads....
So not porn then smile