naturist wrote:
For those of us who find ads that follow you wherever you surf to be a bit creepy, this might the the ticket.
I see this report occasionally and always wonder what are they talking about since I have never experienced "ads that follow you wherever you surf." Maybe it's platform related since this post implies an Apple environment and I don't do Apple. But I think I have seen the report in the Windows environment.
It sounds more like a malware driven symptom than a tracking issue with browsers, search engines, etc. I am a Google world person like a poster up the way and so am certainly tracked to get their application benefits but don't have any problem with pop-up adds. I do use the Adblock Chrome extension which might also be a factor.
I just find it curious how some have this problem and others do not and it seems to me the wrong culprits are being blamed. Browser toolbars, for example, are one category of malware I would suspect.