Amazon Spying On Me

[follyfancier]

Amazon are spying on me ,they keep sending me e-mails for things I have searched for on Google but it was not for things on their web site
how do they know and how can I stop them.

[Old_Geezer]

They all share spy cookies. Use superantispyware.

[Old_Geezer]

Mind you that's the first I've heard of receiving e-mails using them.
Sure it was from Amazon ?
Run Malwarebytes too.

[chiaroscuro]

There should be an 'unsubscribe' button at the foot of the emails

[gangesboy]

There are several sites which discuss this - this is one of them

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/4249/how-does-amazon-know-what-i-have-been-searching-on-google

[Svejk]

Everyone is 'spying' on everyone.

[1ozzy]

If you are using the "world wide web" everyone is spying on everyone.

[1ozzy]

No!!!
I didn't quote Svejk ;-)

Just agreed

[Svejk]

Go on, say, the Good Morning thread on here and you'll get pop-up Ads for basques and sex-aids throughout the day.

[Peter Pedant]

you have accepted cookies to get onto certain sites

rather than stopping one - you should be aware that your habits are being monitored ... to sell tou more rather than other purposes

[1ozzy]

Maybe some one should start a "happy ending" thread.
See what adverts you get then.

[HansUrbancka]

If you are using Google as your Search Engine then all sites involved with them (including Answerbank) will have you on their lists for advertising purposes.

I dislike Google and avoid using it's services as much as possible.

Hans.

[follyfancier]

I think it must be Google because now Argos are sending me the same things and I didn,t look at them directly either