Coffee anyone ?

[greybeard]

Why Vietnamese? Just because you were there 50 years ago? How would they know?

https://www.backyardherds.com/threa...how-we-muddle-along.38119/page-49#post-590019
To post one of those pictures, I had to search a Vietnam website.
Not long afterwards, I posted in Latestarters journal regarding DirectTV contracts. I'm sure this post too, can affect which ads are visible to me, as can anywhere I've been on the net that left any traces in my history, cookie, or temp internet files.
(I am, while typing this reply, seeing an ad for some kind of legal settlement regarding somewhere in North Carolina. Holly Springs to be exact.
I read something about that a couple weeks ago while looking for another topic on a different discussion board. (Yes, your entire browsing history follows you around and privacy is really non-existent to any board that uses these type ad campaigns.)

There is a way to 'opt out' of Google's personalized ads........ads tailored to reflect what you have shown an interest in thru past web travels and instead of tailored ads, you allegedly will just see random ads.

 

[greybeard]

Sometimes I see ads in Japanese. I don't know why because I don't look at anything Japanese, not even Chinese.

You may now, simply because you mentioned them....

 

[Bruce]

Let us now RA, that would be quite a "coincidence".

I'm using Chrome, I THINK there is something you can check that says not to let sites track you?

 

[RollingAcres]

You may now, simply because you mentioned them....

I do know that they track our browsing history because I see ads for things that I looked at. We'll see if I start to see more Japanese or Chinese ads.

 

[Alaskan]

It is unseasonably warm up here.

 

[greybeard]

Let us now RA, that would be quite a "coincidence".

I'm using Chrome, I THINK there is something you can check that says not to let sites track you?

You can, but on many sites, it does very little good.



It's about like the old "nationwide do not call" list that was 'supposed' to end telephone robocalls. yeah...riggghhhttt..

 

[Bruce]

So it SOUNDS a whole lot better than it is. I have ad blockers so I don't see ads. I do sometimes get some pretty bizarre emails and I have no idea how they got my email since clearly they aren't related to anything I have ever done on the web.

 

[Mini Horses]

Oh well it is winter I keep telling myself....

Me, too. But it is so hard to believe with the up & down weather. I mean it's 25 one day and 65 the next! Yeah, they are saying maybe snow here Tues.

I hate to jinx me BUT...two of the biggest snows here, both over 15", were first week of March. Almost 10 yrs apart and last was 9 yrs ago. Hmmmm…….please, no.

I do know that they track our browsing history because I see ads for things that I looked at.

Yes, and it annoys the heck out of me!! I looked for some operating instructions for a coffee pot for a friend, now...yep everbody with one for sale sends me an ad.

It is unseasonably warm up here.

So, what is that? You have snow and it's "warm" ?? does that mean it isn't a negative number? It's all relative, right? ENJOY the warm winter.

 

[Alaskan]

So, what is that? You have snow and it's "warm" ?? does that mean it isn't a negative number? It's all relative, right? ENJOY the warm winter.

Well.. yeah! Anything above 0 F is warm!

But we warmed up to right at freezing for 3 days. So now we are solid ice.

Back below freezing and blizzarding. We are only a touch below freezing... so hopefully that means the ice is still wet enough, and the snow is wet enough, so that the snow welds to the ice and we lose the horrid slick driveway.

But maybe we can stop the blizzard before I have to plow.

 

[Alaskan]

I hate to jinx me BUT...two of the biggest snows here, both over 15", were first week of March. Almost 10 yrs apart and last was 9 yrs ago. Hmmmm…….please, no.

I bet it is the same here.

When the weather gets just below freezing, so things are warming up in March and April, we can just get HAMMERED with feet of snow!

Often the huge dumps don't start until February.