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Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist
Using Google Ads as an example, but other ad networks would work the same.

The site you visited would be using Google ads, as would countless others. So if you're browsing pet rock sites, and those sites use Google Ads, Google will record that information. Later on when you're browsing German Dungeon Porn that also has Google Ads, they use their previous knowledge of your browsing habits to show pet rocks.

And then you visit some other site that uses an ad network that allows flash ads or has some other exploit, and then you get free keyloggers and poo poo installed and you probably should just be using Adblock and not worrying about it.

Orcs and Ostriches fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Dec 17, 2014

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