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? :2 cents:

Its just cookies. It should not only happen on facebook. It happens on every site. I guess this all day. They are set to a certain amount of days. So some will last 24 hours, some 7 days , some 1 month etc. You can enable this if you are buying ads from google ads or any other ad server.

I've noticed this too, except even worse, it seems like google is using keystrokes of text input to tailor ads, if I have typed something in Cyrillic, the next site or two I have been offered Cyrillic ads even on an English site, and if I visit a health site, the next site I go to that has nothing to do with health I am being offered health ads

it is kind of spooky

That's called Retargeting

this online ads practice been out for a while now, on all browsers set to accept 3rd party cookies i think.

what's annoying about these ads, after you searched/bought something on amazon, newegg or such stores, you get bombarded with ads for a product you already bought with them

This started with me about 3 years ago...

I understood what it was, but I got so fed up. I installed and add-blocker...

Never looked back

PS: i like poo... :helpme

It's with Chrome as well. Just disable third party cookies and it won't happen anymore.

yes I understand this is made with cookies, what made me shit bricks is the Thunderbird issue, I didn't know they could set cookies in Thunderbird. Didn't know about other browsers since I don't use them other than to check designs.

Well, thanks everybody for the input :thumbsup

I assume anything that has HTML or any kind of code, this can be done to.