> how do those first 5 websites learn that I bought a lamp?
Even Amazon's ad servering systems don't seem to be told that I bought the lamp from them never mind some other store.
Maybe they are hoping I liked it so much I'd decide that I need another lamp, so they want to remind me where I got the first one from?
> is the most visible form is mostly what drove me to use an ad blocker
My reason for blocking ads was because of the increasing incidence of malware riddled ad hosts often being used by high(ish) profile sites.
imgur.com was the final bail of hay that made me install network-wide protection at home. I also rehost any image I decide to share from there, to protect people outside my LAN. I don't want the tech support workload of cleaning other people's machines after what I'd too often seen their (obviously not sufficiently verified) ad partners try to pull.
My privacy is fairly shot already, but at least I can try to protect myself and others from other malware.
Even Amazon's ad servering systems don't seem to be told that I bought the lamp from them never mind some other store.
Maybe they are hoping I liked it so much I'd decide that I need another lamp, so they want to remind me where I got the first one from?
> is the most visible form is mostly what drove me to use an ad blocker
My reason for blocking ads was because of the increasing incidence of malware riddled ad hosts often being used by high(ish) profile sites.
imgur.com was the final bail of hay that made me install network-wide protection at home. I also rehost any image I decide to share from there, to protect people outside my LAN. I don't want the tech support workload of cleaning other people's machines after what I'd too often seen their (obviously not sufficiently verified) ad partners try to pull.
My privacy is fairly shot already, but at least I can try to protect myself and others from other malware.