Questionable ads again

[Lucien Nunes]

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Seeing a lot of ads for Motex, another fake electricity-bill-saver. I had four on one page just now, including pics of dangerous foreign electrical demos with bare live connections, I think these were from India or Pakistan. So two unrelated kinds of electrical bad practice being displayed prominently amongst our posts. I imagine it is hard to screen these ads up-front, maybe impossible. But any ad claiming to save on electricity bills with a plug-in device is probably making false claims.

 

[Lou]

Thanks guys, we are trying to sort this out.

 

[littlespark]

Do the google "adchoices" adverts listen to you?

We're going on a cruise in the summer, and likely searched for that before booking... I get adverts for cruises on the forum (and other sites where Adchoices are present)
I put that down to actually searching for it...

My eldest was down at the weekend, and she studies Linguistics and is learning Mandarin. Although we were talking about here course, none of us had typed into any search engine....

And i suddenly start getting adverts here for GCHQ jobs wanting staff for linguistics, and particularly Mandarin!


My girl. Working for MI6 ???? She cant keep a bloody secret if she tried!

 

[Rockingit]

Do the google "adchoices" adverts listen to you?

We're going on a cruise in the summer, and likely searched for that before booking... I get adverts for cruises on the forum (and other sites where Adchoices are present)
I put that down to actually searching for it...

My eldest was down at the weekend, and she studies Linguistics and is learning Mandarin. Although we were talking about here course, none of us had typed into any search engine....

And i suddenly start getting adverts here for GCHQ jobs wanting staff for linguistics, and particularly Mandarin!


My girl. Working for MI6 ???? She cant keep a bloody secret if she tried!

I'm convinced they do. A bunch of us even tried to prove it, with success, by quietly agreeing to all talk loudly about something really random around our phones, within about six hours the targeted ads for that subject started to appear.

 

[DPG]

I'm convinced they do. A bunch of us even tried to prove it, with success, by quietly agreeing to all talk loudly about something really random around our phones, within about six hours the targeted ads for that subject started to appear.

I know people with Apple phones that have seen this several times. And with quite unusual things, so unlikely to be coincidence.

Also, a few years ago, one brand of smart TVs was always listening. I think they got fined for it as it should only have done it when voice recognition was selected by the user.