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Velocio in reply to @PQR
Well this was a bit freaky! Not looked at any battery websites so wondering what sort of cookies LinkedIn is working too.

An hour after a battery chat and suddenly get an advert for batteries

Nothing on LFGSS would do this.

But if you followed a single link off of LFGSS to anything that provides context, and if you keep all your browsing in one browser... just assume that you already have a Facebook cookie and that so does every other site and it's Facebook that put this together.

My advice remains:
- Google stuff (gmail, drive, etc) in Chrome, with 1 or 2 sites you absolutely trust (for me that is LFGSS) and get into the habit of copying links and opening them in Firefox
- Facebook never
- Browse the web with Firefox with NoScript installed and permanently in private browsing

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PQR in reply to @Velocio

I've not logged into FB for a very long time.
I seem to be on 3 websites, this, iwastesomuchtime.com and the mailonline.

I've a sneaky hunch which one would have more cookies and stalk me.

Good hint about the chrome and Firefox..will start doing that

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Soul in reply to @PQR

Consider using an extension like Ghostery to disable tracking across your browsing habits if you don't like what you're seeing.

As someone who works in this area though, I would say that you were interested in vacuum batteries and now you've got an ad about vacuum batteries. Is that really that bad? Is it worse than getting a random ad about something you're not interested in?

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