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Joined: Aug 2013
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Formerly known as Aldermog Member of the Inner Circle
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Dyslexia and predictive text are a marriage made in chaos!
Peter,
66, 2016 Porsche Boxster S
No longer driving Tarka, the 2014 Plus 8...
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Talk Morgan Enthusiast
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Recently I was chatting to my daughter about cancelling Sky and buying a Humax recorder.
Never did a web search and within an hour on the Car and Classic site a banner appeared advertising a Humax !
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Formerly known as Aldermog Member of the Inner Circle
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Formerly known as Aldermog Member of the Inner Circle
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Alexa is deaf when the plug is pulled. Alexa and Siri have been purged from this house. Even so, as Neil has explained in the past, Google will select advertisements based on information about you in the public domain, recent web searches and other stuff. On my phone I use Duck Duck Go as a trouser: it confuses Google. It may appear on my iMac at this rate... I installed it on the iMac and the next day deleted it. It seems to favour US based organisations when searching, to the point that it is unhelpful. As an example, I was searching for QUAD HiFi. The website is www.//quad-hifi.co.uk. DDG simply couldn't find it....
Peter,
66, 2016 Porsche Boxster S
No longer driving Tarka, the 2014 Plus 8...
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Alexa is deaf when the plug is pulled. Alexa and Siri have been purged from this house. Even so, as Neil has explained in the past, Google will select advertisements based on information about you in the public domain, recent web searches and other stuff. On my phone I use Duck Duck Go as a trouser: it confuses Google. It may appear on my iMac at this rate... I installed it on the iMac and the next day deleted it. It seems to favour US based organisations when searching, to the point that it is unhelpful. As an example, I was searching for QUAD HiFi. The website is www.//quad-hifi.co.uk. DDG simply couldn't find it.... Odd ![[Linked Image]](https://www.tm-img.com/images/2020/01/20/image.png)
Brian
Jersey and Spain
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Smile, it confuses them Member of the Inner Circle
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Smile, it confuses them Member of the Inner Circle
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I must admit to finding the DDG was blind to a lot of the more esoteric stuff I get involved in as well. I use it for more interesting stuff and just resort to Google for general work. Lets face it, as mentioned above, they have us tracked to the nines anyway. (anyone going to fess up to buying that speaker cable at 1.5m for £249, I hope thats a pair as well!) 
Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.
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(anyone going to fess up to buying that speaker cable at 1.5m for £249, I hope thats a pair as well!) I've spent £220 on 2 x 1.2m balanced interconnects...., but don't tell anyone!
Peter,
66, 2016 Porsche Boxster S
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Scruffy Oik Member of the Inner Circle
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Scruffy Oik Member of the Inner Circle
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they have us tracked to the nines anyway. This is the way I look at it. I just assume that everything I do or say on the internet is public knowledge. I'm going to get bombarded with adverts anyway, so they may as well be for things I'm interested in rather than any old toss.
Tim H.
1986 4/4 VVTi Sport, 2002 LR Defender, 2022 Mini Cooper SE
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Moderate or good, occasionally poor Talk Morgan Addict
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Moderate or good, occasionally poor Talk Morgan Addict
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Mrs W called me into the kitchen to take the lid off a jar of peppers. Having done it, I returned to my laptop and found Facebook displaying an advert for a device that removes jar lids.
We don't have Alexa or anything like it but it's hard to believe it was coincidence.
2011 Morgan 4/4
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Scruffy Oik Member of the Inner Circle
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Scruffy Oik Member of the Inner Circle
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Mrs W called me into the kitchen to take the lid off a jar of peppers. Having done it, I returned to my laptop and found Facebook displaying an advert for a device that removes jar lids.
We don't have Alexa or anything like it but it's hard to believe it was coincidence. Did you try clicking on "Why am I seeing this ad?". Not that it would help much. They're hardly likely to say "It's because we've bugged your kitchen and have your missus under 24 hour surveillance".
Tim H.
1986 4/4 VVTi Sport, 2002 LR Defender, 2022 Mini Cooper SE
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