How to Hide $400M

Re:How to Hide $400M by linkregister on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:58PM (#13073556)

Dammit. While researching for some hard stats on this, I performed several Google searches containing the keywords "California divorce". Now I'm already getting divorce ads. Which my spouse might see. Better explain this one now before it becomes self-fulfilling ;) !

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Re:How to Hide $400M by sbov on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:19PM (#13074331)

Can you clear it on this page? I've used it before to clear out "temporary" interests.

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated

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Re:How to Hide $400M by knicholes on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:57PM (#13075816)

You should be able to opt out of OBA ads by clicking on the AdChoices icon at the top of your display ads a little "play button", typically. Another, possibly less effective, way to do this is to clear your cookies. Then the "ad networks" will have to find another way to identify you and stitch your cookies together.

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Re:How to Hide $400M by poikniok on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:01PM (#13073592)

Another great reason to have an ad blocker.

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Re:How to Hide $400M by coredog64 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:38PM (#13073910)

That's what incognito mode is for. My cellphone provider is Cricket Wireless, and just leaving out the ".com" had Google showing me cards for cricket games for weeks on my Android.

Now I only ever visit Cricket's website in incognito mode.

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Re:How to Hide $400M by nitrogen on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:46PM (#13074004)

Ads could be targeted by IP.

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