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Facebook and other websites "following" me? - Existential Blues - 04-28-2014 01:09 AM
I've noticed that Facebook, Amazon.com, Myspace, and other websites advertise things I've recently looked up outside of their websites. How do they know what I've been looking up? Isn't this illegal???
- Daniel Y - 04-28-2014 01:13 AM
no its because u are typing your current city or ur hometown and so they track that and they say that
- golfgirl3 - 04-28-2014 01:19 AM
They have monitors that watch your every move, you better not answer the door the next time it rings or there is a knock at it.
- Kehon H - 04-28-2014 01:26 AM
unfortunately this is not illegal and they do it thru the use of cookies so every time you goto a website it adds a cookie and then when you go back to facebook or myspace they check to see what cookies are there and advertise accordingly. They get paid each time you click on a link so it's better for them if they put stuff on their sites that you might want to click and see.