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â™¥sc · 11-09-2012, 12:01 PM

so i was looking at this girl who hates me's public myspace and you know those annoying ads that are on the bottom that say youve won a free computer or you have a new message from your friend? well i was logged off of facebook (AND I DONT EVEN HAVE A MYSPACE!) and the ad had my facebook picture and my name and said i have a new message or w/e. but why was my picture & name there?/howdid they get it? will she be able to see that i looked at it?

Zach · 11-09-2012, 12:09 PM

Sounds like you have some adware on your system. This enemy of yours won't know that you were on her page, because the ad was targeted specifically at you. Run a spyware check though and clear your private data and you should be fine.

Clarisse :D · 11-09-2012, 12:09 PM

Well, those kind of websites usually have advertisements like those. And I suggest that you shouldn't click them. Some ads even have viruses. Well, if you had your Facebook picture in that ad, then I guess only you can see it because you're the only one who clicked the link. But if other also did, they would see your photo. However, there's no such tendency that other would be able to see your pic because there are tons of pics that other might see besides your photo. And the girl you hate won't be able to see your pic.

Jangly Mark · 11-09-2012, 12:09 PM

Targeting advertising is getting more sophisticated.
The girl whose profile you looked at will have no way of knowing that you looked at her page, but, your IP address can be ascertained by the website. This is used for following the pages that you look at, and then targeting ads to you personally using the results.

There are two things that you can do. First, check for spyware/adware on your PC.

Once you have done this, install Adblock Plus.
You need to be using Firefox to run Adblock Plus. If you do not have Firefox already, you can get it for free here: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Adblock Plus can be found here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Not only will that be the end of the ads, but, it will also give quicker page loading times (as it's no longer loading the adverts).