Amazon. WTF?

[Rooskibar03]

Amazon routinely moves prices up and down and sometimes for short Periods of time. There is a site called camelcamelcamel.com that tracks pricing on Amazon. You can see history of the price and set alerts for price drops. Great way to catch a deal that might only be in play for 30 minutes.

Here is an example. The ear protection I just bought. Price is all over the place but for one day in June it dropped big time.

[izzy]

I can't say much with out violation of my NDA but we are all being watched very closely.

[USMC88-93]

Tin foil time for me this season as well. I have not once ever had an add for one of those RC drones show up while browsing via a web page or within a program...

The other night I walked through Best Buy and while looking around I stopped in front of a drone display to read the literature and info on the display. Later that evening while using my computer not only did I have an add for a RC drone show up within a webpage but it was the exact drone model I had stopped to look at.

I am certain that some of the big box stores have some sort of WiFi method to monitor a cell phones IP within a store kind of like a GPS to see what the phone owner stops to show interest in. If you stop in front of a "data gathering point" it registers the IP or phone number and then they can look back within some larger database to match that number or IP to email address and then match that email address to your home IP and .....magically you see an add for something at home that you had shown passing interest in within the store either on that stores webpage or from one of their partners on the back end..

[Skip]

I can't say much with out violation of my NDA but we are all being watched very closely.

My kiddo lost some Lego pieces to a couple of sets and we jumped on the Lego site to order replacements (really cool service, btw). This was on my desktop.

That night I was checking Twitter on my iPhone (using my home WiFi) and got served in-stream adds for Lego sets. I never do any shopping on my iPhone.

Creepers!

[Irving]

If you're logged into Chrome on different devices, it's all connected. I can be looking at something on my desktop and bring up the same page from my Nook just going to the history and looking at the recent history of each device that is on the network.

[Skip]

If you're logged into Chrome on different devices, it's all connected. I can be looking at something on my desktop and bring up the same page from my Nook just going to the history and looking at the recent history of each device that is on the network.

Super creepy. I use IE on my desktop and Safari on the iPhone. Probably works the same.

[brutal]

If you're logged into Chrome on different devices, it's all connected. I can be looking at something on my desktop and bring up the same page from my Nook just going to the history and looking at the recent history of each device that is on the network.

That's a known Google thing. Logging into chrome from every device is going to share history, cookies, etc.

I just wish Google they would stop throwing the damn WINDOWS 10 DRIVERS ads at me everywhere when I have only looked at the free upgrade notice and declined.

Bottom line guys is that if you are online you're being tracked for many reasons including targeted marketing.

[ray1970]

I'm just glad to know that homeland security can easily keep track of potential threats with this technology.

[brutal]

For reasons stated above, I actually use Tor when booking flights. Doing a side-by-side comparison with my wife's laptop, 4/4 times it showed a different price, and 3/4 times it was cheaper on Tor than Mrs. HB's laptop (One time out of the 4 tries, it was pricier).

Just by using Tor, you could be setting yourself up for surveil.

http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-an...-it-1527891029

[HoneyBadger]

Just by using Tor, you could be setting yourself up for surveil.

http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-an...-it-1527891029

Oh, I know. I'm already being watched from 1000 directions by every agency available. What's 1 more?

Bottom line guys is that if you are online you're being tracked for many reasons including targeted marketing.

There is a huge amount of money in advertising (obviously), so don't expect this "problem" to go away or get any better.