What I saw was sorta...truly amazing ! Same searches I had on Amazon.com were listed in order on their ad here. Hows that for beating the odds.
Coincidence
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Sounds like targeted advertising. There is a lot of that these days (where your home town will appear in the ad, etc). Maybe Amazon uses a cookie to market in that manner. If so, usually there is a way to opt out of that on the advertiser's web site if it bothers you.
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Webman thanks for your reply. Just thought it was odd that Amazon was plugging dusk to dawn sensors for vp players.
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I've been seeing the targeted advertising for many months now. It's not just Amazon either as I've seen ads from other websites I visit. I suspect Google is involved as well. They probably sell the advertising space to the websites and then use cookies created by the websites we visit.
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I saw that this story too and thought of this thread. It looks like that was particular to users of Safari, which must offer blocking on the browser level.
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George Orwell's "1984", 2012-style..