Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Recently, I posted a story about what grandfathers' might give their college graduating grandson. It went on to mention the gift of a Montblanc pen!

Almost immediately, Montblank posted one or more articles about how grand and exclusive their pens were.

Now before my article, I do not believe there was ever any mention of Montblanc writing instruments!

So, how do you suppose they knew about my article? Was it 'cookies'? or some other subversive monitoring of our stories? I am curious about what transpired here. Are there ways for companies to constantly monitor our communications? Just Sayin...RJS

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

My point exactly bout the negative responses bout the TEMU site and others.
If you don't think that our info is already out there and everything we say and do ESPECIALLY online(computer) isn't already known. Then you're just not bein realistic. Just Sayin.

Possum2 Loc: South Mississippi

China!

Ares1 Loc: Austin texas

Welcome to 2024,the age of technology.they monitor our every move.technology has its pros n cons.i use it to spread the gospel.now days,hardly anyone goes to church,so I try to take it to them.ill be out at lake phlugerville,next week doing some catfishing.i heard their biting pretty good.yall have a blessed day.

Papabear65 Loc: Salem oregon

Now I'm hearing that general motors vehicles with OnStar is tracking your driving habits and sending the information to a data broker who sells that information to your insurance company so they can adjust your rates to match your driving habits. Technology is always keeping an eye on us. Even our phones when not being used is listening. My wife mentioned something to me earlier this week and when I went to look it up it popped up without me putting it in. Big brother is watching

MuskyHunter Loc: Torrington, CT

This is known as cross site tracking and is done via cookies. To me it is really irritating. Some websites give you the ability to turn off all, but the cookies that are required for website operation. Other sites do not. If you turn this off, a cookie will be left in your cache that instructs the website not to do cross site tracking. This is a per website setting so you will have to do this on each website that allows you to. If you clear your cache, you will clear these settings.

If you are lucky enough to have an Apple computer, and you are using the Safari browser, they have a setting that totally disables cross site tracking independent of the website and remains set even after you clear the cache. I have this set and never see that behavior any more. I still get ads, but they are just dumb ads. Google lost a bit of revenue after Apple did this because they get paid more when the ads are specifically targeted.