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Old 04-05-2013, 10:17 PM  
harvey
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Question: is Mozilla/Facebook spyware a known fact?

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What I want to know is if this is some kind of known agreement or if they're doing it "under the ropes". Every single time I visit a site selling any kind of services, I get the ad in Facebook a few minutes later. And this is not only about Firefox. It's Thunderbird as well. As some as you know, I suffer on a very rare condition which requires constant medical control. So one day I got my results by mail and bang, Facebook starts offering me medical services based on those results.

While I have anti-spyware and antivirus software just like anyone else, there's a chance something went under the radar, so last week when I bought a new computer I installed Firefox and just in case open a bogus Facebook account. I got some random ads as expected. Then visited Rackspace, GoDaddy and Salesforce. Bang! Facebook displayed ads for all 3 of those sites as well as some from their competitors.

So, while it really doesn't bother me and I'll still use FF since I love it for work purposes, I'm really curious about this. Also, the mail issue bothers me a little, I won't lie

Anyone?
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