Do you bother to check out Links?

A relative of mine works in high end retail. If you were to book an appointment to view one of these high end products he would have you favourite coffee, biscuits, cake ( any other snacks you might like)

He would have hard work with me. I do not snack so do not buy biscuits, and cakes, when I buy them, come from one of several local farm shops and I buy all my coffee in France.

StarDreamer

Elegran wrote Did you buy the items online?

Oh, yes.

I suppose it would still be possible if I had gone in the shop and used my Clubcard. Though I haven't been in the shop since about 2010.

If I had had someone from Age UK go and get the stuff for me and the advert appeared now that would be twilight zone stuff.

LINK > www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnNtT4rKwg

I don't think just buying from Tesco in person, and showing your Clubcard, would trigger the ads - but I could be wrong.

Talking of Clubcards, I have just bought six months of delivery charges from Tesco, for £29.95 - but I used £10 worth of my Clubcard vouchers to pay, which got me three times their value. So I will get unlimited deliveries, including next-day ones (though only after 3pm) for £10 for the next six months. Two deliveries a month would normally have cost at least £5 a month, or £30 so I have saved at least £20.

Everyone could do the same, Monica. It is made easy for you by your browser, and sites like Google have settings which can restrict the number of ads you get.

I have an adblocker, so the only links I see are those included in posts on GN, or, very occasionally facebook.

It is so easy to download an adblocker and, while a few sites will block you unless you turn it off, there is nothing online that cannot be found from an alternative site that does not object to ad blockers.

Between my adblocker and the assiduity in which I unsubscribe from junk mail from companies I buy from, my online life is almost advert free.

That way almost every link I see is pertinent and safe.

I wish I could afford high end retail that sounds great.

I never buy high end retail, so not worried about that.
Bottom of the bargain basement, that's me.

StarDreamer

Elegran wrote Did you buy the items online?

Oh, yes.

I suppose it would still be possible if I had gone in the shop and used my Clubcard. Though I haven't been in the shop since about 2010.

If I had had someone from Age UK go and get the stuff for me and the advert appeared now that would be twilight zone stuff.

LINK > www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnNtT4rKwg

StarDreamer
I’m sure your aware of this.

www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jun/08/supermarkets-get-your-data.

A relative of mine works in high end retail. If you were to book an appointment to view one of these high end products he would have you favourite coffee, biscuits, cake ( any other snacks you might like)
How does he know this? Data: mainly gathered from a store card.

MissAdventure

Spelt it wrong.
Don't care.

Thanks.
That will be handy for me, as I'm sure I turn things on and off without understanding what I'm doing half the time.

This thread has been useful for me, as I’ve turned off the link for Google to show personalised adverts now. It was really easily done in settings on my iPad.
This might help if anybody else wants to do the same.
www.businessinsider.com/how-to-prevent-google-using-information-it-tracks-about-your-purchases-2019-5

Spelt it wrong.
Don't care.

Oh the twilight zone!
Funny enough, I really was thinking of that programme when a thread was posted about Sundays.
I was thinking that Saturdays were better, with 'Kung Foo' on, and later the twighlight zone.

Elegran wrote Did you buy the items online?

Oh, yes.

I suppose it would still be possible if I had gone in the shop and used my Clubcard. Though I haven't been in the shop since about 2010.

If I had had someone from Age UK go and get the stuff for me and the advert appeared now that would be twilight zone stuff.

LINK > www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnNtT4rKwg

I've got load of bent up cutlery...
Not really.

No ads for me, Tesco or otherwise

Elegran

nadateturbe It could be the site itself that is dodgy, not the link that takes you there!

Yes, but you can check it better using the search bar.

Elegran.
I wondered what he was up to these days.

StarDreamer In your case, I think the ads must appear because your browser is also in that scheme. Did you buy the items online? You can opt out of Google using personalised ads - you will still get ads, but they won't be eerily relevant to your own use of the internet.

I assume that Gransnet has joined Google's scheme for automatically putting onto the page of a site an add which is triggered by certain words that appear on that page. On the one hand Google has sites which have agreed to this, and on the other hand they have clients who have adverts that need placing. They charge the advertisers to place the ads, and pay the site owners to host them.

Gransnet doesn't charge posters for using the forums, but they need the revenue that advertisers bring. Joining this scheme of Google's gets them ads without having to source them and edit them into the pages themselves.

I don't know how Google reads MissA's thoughts to produce ads for whatever she was thinking of. Maybe they employ Uri Geller?

Oooh errr!
I sometimes think of something and it seems to pop up in an ad, somewhere.

I'll have to try not to think too hard.

At the top of the Gransnet page at the moment, for me, is an advertisement for Tesco.

Yes, I use the Tesco website.

However, this advert is not just Tesco as such, it advertises four products, two of which I have only bought once, about ten days ago, and two others which are cheaper (and in one case bigger), other manufacturer versions, of two items that I bought recently.

One of the products that I have bought only once is a pack of A4 plastic document wallets, each document wallet to go in a ring binder and to contain a sheet of A4 paper, as in constructing a portfolio. So not typical grocery shopping.

That seems a bit weird that that level of detail is being tracked and then pops up on an advert on a Gransnet page.

Ooh!

FarNorth If you are not back by midnight, we'll send out a search party.

Oooh!
Very brave, I must say.

Thank you Elegran. I'm feeling reckless so I'll click on that link.