They are following me!

They are following me everywhere. Yes, I admit I’ve been there. But that’s not a crime!

What is more surprising than you find internet marketing ads are following you? I visited Dominio.com and NetowrkSolutions.com yesterday, and today found them following me wherever I go. On totally different content, repeatedly and on multiple sites. Here are screen-shots.

I know the only way to get rid is to clear browser cookies. I did and they went away!

[Note: Typically I use AdBlockPlus, but these days I am trying to understand how AdWords works.]

- Ankit

Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, June 24, 2010, at 2:42 pm by Ankit Jain. Filed in Google, Internet and tagged adwords, doubleclick, marketing.

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One Comment

Ankur Jain

I was looking for a network solutions SSL and they were following me all over the web. It’s called behavioral targeting / retargetting in the internet marketing world. Your right clearing cookies is the only way to stop it or block cookies from certain domains.

Posted on 18-Jul-10 at 1:55 am | Permalink

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