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  1. I don’t think I take my blog seriously enough to check these things. There’s a line graph at the top of my dashboard that looks like stock market reports or sales meetings. When it dips really low, I think, “OK, no more talk about x, y, z.” And I don’t see anything wrong with accessing other blogs from the one you’re reading. That’s usually how I find good ones to read! Also, I’m so boring, no agency would want to track me!
    Peace,
    Muff

    • There was a time when I did pay attention to all the stats – like many things what I find important has changed along with many of my views on many subjects. It just surprised me how much detail is in some site statistic programs.

      I suspect those who sell our info to advertisers do not find any of us “boring” and I know I do not find your blog so. ๐Ÿ™‚

  2. I don’t take much notice of my blog stats. What I do notice is that anything I have been searching on Google, shows up on ads on other people’s blogs (that have ads) and on facebook. Now that’s scary!

    • All part of the same processes. Creepier is how what I watch on television influences the ads on others blogs.More irritating to me is how I might be unsuspectingly supporting someone using a niche blog to make money. Google it . …

  3. Jan – you’re right about the privacy invasion. And I’m with Karen. It bothers me when I’ve looked at products online and then seen those same things advertised on words with friends or on the sidebar of hotmail. I was just looking at a site that sells a panic pendant that works anywhere, not just in your home, and there was the ad about their cell phone at the end of my words with friends game. Gah!

    I haven’t noticed a correlation between the tv we watch and ads online. But, now I’m going to see if there’s a connection. Thanks for heightening my paranoia! ๐Ÿ™‚

    • It must be my job to crate further paranoia. KRP tends to set the cable to record all sorts of stuff I would never watch. The cable service has a suggest movies choice โ€“ to watch based on viewing habits. I think that is where the tailored ads come? It only happens on the cable companies main login page if I login. I tend not to login and use other programs for mail and net searches.

      I can go to a cable TV channel and there is a record of all the calls we have made and received.

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