Excuse the photo of it, tried to get it on phone but for different ads.
Arnt those based off your own google history etc?
That’s more down to Google really.
2022 an people don’t have ad block.
Nothing to do with The Journal. Those ads are completely personalized. You or whoever was using that PC was googling stuff like that or that shop previously.
The Journal has nothing to do with this ad, they’ve never seen it, never reviewed it and if 100 people looked at the exact same URL I’d be willing to bet that only 1 or 2 (if even) will see that advert even if they were 100 different computers in your office.
Google ads are linked by a series of complicated algorithms based on your browser history, your location, general interests based off recent searches from your IP etc. Many offices share a single IP for external internet so someone on your network could be looking up these things. But 99% of the time it’s linked to your account. Signed in to a gogole service or something that utilises a Google service on your computer, they know who you are.
Also as you’ve posted using Edge (which is basically Microsoft Google Chrome) it’s not that hard for Google to serve you personalised ads.
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Excuse the photo of it, tried to get it on phone but for different ads.
Arnt those based off your own google history etc?
That’s more down to Google really.
2022 an people don’t have ad block.
Nothing to do with The Journal. Those ads are completely personalized. You or whoever was using that PC was googling stuff like that or that shop previously.
The Journal has nothing to do with this ad, they’ve never seen it, never reviewed it and if 100 people looked at the exact same URL I’d be willing to bet that only 1 or 2 (if even) will see that advert even if they were 100 different computers in your office.
Google ads are linked by a series of complicated algorithms based on your browser history, your location, general interests based off recent searches from your IP etc. Many offices share a single IP for external internet so someone on your network could be looking up these things. But 99% of the time it’s linked to your account. Signed in to a gogole service or something that utilises a Google service on your computer, they know who you are.
Also as you’ve posted using Edge (which is basically Microsoft Google Chrome) it’s not that hard for Google to serve you personalised ads.