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Amazon can tell what im browsing...HOW?

  • 18-05-2010 5:19pm
    #1
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭


    OK, i regularly browse amazon for various things. I am subscribed to them but never log on unless im buying something. Iv noticed though that when i browse a new section, (for arguments sake lets say Video Cameras) after iv been searching various products within the next 48hrs ill get an email from Amazon telling me about the various offers they have on video cameras. Do amazon.co.uk install some sort of spyware in your system? I like to think of my home PC as being very protected!

    Kinda freaks me out a little!


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  • #2
    LFC5Times
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭LFC5Times


    Hogzy wrote: »
    OK, i regularly browse amazon for various things. I am subscribed to them but never log on unless im buying something. Iv noticed though that when i browse a new section, (for arguments sake lets say Video Cameras) after iv been searching various products within the next 48hrs ill get an email from Amazon telling me about the various offers they have on video cameras. Do amazon.co.uk install some sort of spyware in your system? I like to think of my home PC as being very protected!

    Kinda freaks me out a little!

    Have noticed that myself, always wondered how it works!


  • #3
    alb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    It probably leaves a cookie with the ID of the last person to log in from the browser on your computer and then assumes any subsequent browsing of the site is by that user, even if they are not logged in.


  • #4
    ttm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭ttm


    Amazon leave Google behind when it comes to chasing you with advertising. I always try and have fun with them by browsing 3 or 4 items I would never ever buy or can't buy (won't send to Ireland) and then wait to see the adds that turn up in my email and what buying "advice" I get next time I log on. I was looking at camping equipment a few months back and they have been hitting me with adds for it since.


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