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[NEFarmwife]

A little freaked out with the ads on this board.

Really not a fan of sexual content but I’m more concerned about it saying “Odessa women prefer men over the age of 45”...

I’m from Odessa. My cookies shouldn’t reveal that? I was just born there. How deep are these things mining?

 

[bball]

I think most folks would be horrified with the amount of info that is gleaned about them from their electronic devices. Cells, tablets, home computers, anything with a camera or speaker. My wife got an Alexa(?) For a gift. I hate just thinking about who has access to that thing. She thinks is it's the cats meow. Generation gap.

 

[greybeard]

I met my wife in Odessa. I wasn't quite 45 tho..

Odessa Texas ;-)

 

[greybeard]

How deep is the data mining rabbit hole?dam deep.
WHO IS ONLINE
In total there are 185 users online :: 9 registered, 3 hidden and 173 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 563 on Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:08 pm

Registered users: Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], Greg, greybeard, JW IN VA, MShaffer, ramiller5675, TennesseeTuxedo
You don't really think all 173 of those "guests" are simply and innocently looking for answers to cattle problems do ya?

And the 3 bots? Tip of the iceberg.
Google is the real life Skynet/Cyberdyne Systems

 

[Nesikep]

A little freaked out with the ads on this board.

Really not a fan of sexual content but I’m more concerned about it saying “Odessa women prefer men over the age of 45”...

I’m from Odessa. My cookies shouldn’t reveal that? I was just born there. How deep are these things mining?

It gets that from your IP address, not cookies.

 

[Nesikep]

go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and you'll see it..

Here's mine, shows location information, accurate to the nearest city

 

[NEFarmwife]

A little freaked out with the ads on this board.

Really not a fan of sexual content but I’m more concerned about it saying “Odessa women prefer men over the age of 45”...

I’m from Odessa. My cookies shouldn’t reveal that? I was just born there. How deep are these things mining?

It gets that from your IP address, not cookies.

How does it retrieve my birthplace? I was born in Odessa TX... but I live in Nebraska though.

 

[NEFarmwife]

I met my wife in Odessa. I wasn't quite 45 tho..

Odessa Texas ;-)

Are you my daddy? Lol.

Totally playing! Dad worked/lived there in the 70s after Vietnam during the oil boom.

 

[Nesikep]

A little freaked out with the ads on this board.

Really not a fan of sexual content but I’m more concerned about it saying “Odessa women prefer men over the age of 45”...

I’m from Odessa. My cookies shouldn’t reveal that? I was just born there. How deep are these things mining?

It gets that from your IP address, not cookies.

How does it retrieve my birthplace? I was born in Odessa TX... but I live in Nebraska though.

weird indeed

A lot of ad sites are linked to google/facebook, etc, and the same ad supplier to CT supplies them to Facebook... that would be my guess

Or perhaps just dumb luck? (sounds unlikely though)

 

[TCRanch]

I think most folks would be horrified with the amount of info that is gleaned about them from their electronic devices. Cells, tablets, home computers, anything with a camera or speaker. My wife got an Alexa(?) For a gift. I hate just thinking about who has access to that thing. She thinks is it's the cats meow. Generation gap.

I got a Google Home Mini for Christmas & it's still in the box. Have zero interest the potential to listen & record whatever I say in my home. Same concerns have been raised about Alexa. Plus, I'm old school and shop with a hand written list and if I want to know something I look it up.

 

[NEFarmwife]

I won’t get Alexa for that reason.

In my marketing summit, I learned what tool it is for those who market.

I’d give an example but I’d hate to take away from their summit. I was mind blown though.

 

[Dave]

Did it say Odessa Texas? It could be those pesky Russian women from Odessa Russia looking for a sugar daddy who is over 45.

 

[Coosh71]

I looked up preifert calf tables and when I got back on here there was an add for the same tables. Then a day later I get on and it's sexual. Not saying it wasn't reading my mind, but it wasn't getting THAT from my search history. I'm going further out in the brush as time sprints forward.

 

[CattleMan1920]

A little freaked out with the ads on this board.

Really not a fan of sexual content but I’m more concerned about it saying “Odessa women prefer men over the age of 45”...

I’m from Odessa. My cookies shouldn’t reveal that? I was just born there. How deep are these things mining?

Your phone’s mic is probably on and recording, especially if it’s Android. What you watch on TV is being added to your overall profile. What you buy with your debit/credit card contributes. The worst culprit is Facebook, which you use, it has built a profile on you that would scare the sh.t out of you. It’s all being collected on the down low and sold.

I’m not telling you this to freak you out, because it’s not just you in particular, it’s everyone. I lived in a major city where there were at least 5-6 cameras at EACH corner of the intersection. I felt like I was in the Matrix! It sucked, I hated it, every time I looked up I was on camera. Not the case in bum tussle USA, which is quickly disappearing as well.

Not sure why those ads in particular are popping up for you, but if Cattle Today wanted to go first class, they would charge a yearly fee to members for server expenses and stop allowing those stupid azz ads completely.

Try deleting your cookies on the CT site as well as your phone, Google chrome, or whatever browsers you use.

 

[greybeard]

It gets that from your IP address, not cookies.

Depends...how your router is configured or whether you're behind a proxy and a few other things.
Lots of ways to spoof or hide an IP address.

 

[Redgully]

Not sure if it is because I'm from a different country but all the ads i get have nothing to do with me or what i search and read. Mine seem to be random.

 

[greybeard]

Not sure why those ads in particular are popping up for you, but if Cattle Today wanted to go first class, they would charge a yearly fee to members for server expenses and stop allowing those stupid azz ads completely.

That depends on how often any particular member opens a new page, and how many times per day they do.
On many boards, there is an option that allows ad free usage for about $20/yr. On a really busy board, it is easy or common to have a member open 20-50 new pages in any 24 hour period. They'll usually see 2-3 ads in each new page they open which equals as many as 150 of what the ad industry calls CPI..Cost Per Impression. They look at it from a cost perspective and call an ad view an 'impression'..they impressed a product on to your memory. They don't pay per impression, they pay per 1000 impressions, which they call Cost Per Mille (pronounced cost per mile) Mille is Latin for 1000.
(there are other rates for clicking on an ad or click thru too)

In 2018, Google reported it's average CPM payout was $2.80. $2.80 for every 1000 ad views or impressions.

So one member has a total of 150 impressions per day. Multiply X 365 days, then ÷ by 1000 and that = 54.7 cpms X $2.80=$153.20 per year each average member generates in ad revenue. That's about what a yearly membership fee would have to run to make up for lost ad revenue for the most of us.

Most ad revenue I suspect comes not from us members, but from 'visitors/guests'. No matter what time of day or day of the week, guests far outnumber registered members on almost every discussion board. @ 2am (right now) there are 35 guests viewing CT and only 6 registered members and of those 6, only 1/2 are real people.
In total there are 42 users online :: 6 registered, 1 hidden and 35 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 563 on Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:08 pm

Registered users: Bing [Bot], crimsoncrazy, Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], greybeard, T & B farms

Yesterday, during the day, there were 170 guests viewing CT and only 6 registered flesh and blood members. Those 170 guests generated way more ad impressions than the members did.
Making CT a 'paid subscription only' website would cut off the majority of ad payouts to the owner.
Google is an ad agency that just happens to own a search engine...

 

[True Grit Farms]

I think it's great you can still get something for nothing, besides a few commercials popping up.

 

[NEFarmwife]

Agreed. I know ads pay the bills.

Just crazy targeting.

 

[greybeard]

Read it and weep..
A different kind of news and it's not good for a very large % of us here..or anywhere else.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635674/att-location-ad-tracking-data-collection-privacy-nightmare