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post #1 of 15
3/3/09 at 1:59am
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Perhaps I don't know enough about the internet and this isn't as spooky as it initially seems, but how is a banner ad using my facebook image of myself on it? On isohunt there are those typical ads reading that you should take an IQ test or some nonsense, and the ad is made to look like a facebook window - I'm sure the average Chewer has seen this very advert before - but with one's own image pasted onto it?
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post #2 of 15
3/3/09 at 2:29am
I do not know how it works, but are you logged into Facebook (or did not actually click the logout button before closing the window) ? I have personally never seen this though. It is a bit disturbing.
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post #3 of 15
3/3/09 at 2:42am
If you are using torrents, you have entered the realm of sketchiness in terms of spyware and whatnot.

It is completely possible your computer is infected with something.
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post #4 of 15
3/3/09 at 2:43am
I'm sure it's just reading your cookies.
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post #5 of 15
3/3/09 at 3:17am
What Devin said seems possible... but if it were that easy, why haven't we be seeing ads like that for a while now? I still feel like it may be more problematic than just cookie reading.

Can you get the ad to come up regularly or is it pretty random? If you can get it up fairly quickly, you could always try messing with your cookies and see if it changes anything.
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post #6 of 15
3/3/09 at 3:52am
That is fucked, I've heard of facebook selling your info to get more personalized ads, but that is a little too personalized.
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post #7 of 15
3/3/09 at 9:02am
Sort of what Devin said, although browser security prevent one site reading the cookies from another. Facebook has a vast licensing agreement with advertisers, and they utilize hooks through facebook's own site to display your information. That means the ad isn't reading your facebook information, Facebook is, however, they're also more than likely supplying that very information back to the advertiser after they've made the inquiry when you loaded the page.

Remember, Free sites that stay in business, earn money somehow.
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post #8 of 15
3/3/09 at 11:56am
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I'll check on this cookie business when I get home, but in any case, this is right out of Minority Report except there is a portal one has to voluntarily travel thru (Facebook registration). And that we're just fine with taking personal information for whatever venture, without the help of a government.

Yes, a free site needs to make money somehow, but this is getting a little over-the-top (though the logical next-step in branding and marketing).
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post #9 of 15
3/3/09 at 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by kungfumonkeyMike View Post
If you are using torrents, you have entered the realm of sketchiness in terms of spyware and whatnot.

It is completely possible your computer is infected with something.
Could you expand this? Are btmon or ishunt safe? I had spyboot/spyblaster and never detected any trace of spyware...
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post #10 of 15
3/3/09 at 12:42pm
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Originally Posted by Feral Akodon View Post
Could you expand this? Are btmon or ishunt safe? I had spyboot/spyblaster and never detected any trace of spyware...
I always use peerguardian and run comprehensive anti-virus scans. I've never had an issue, but I also don't download torrents very often.
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post #11 of 15
3/3/09 at 12:49pm
I think the only solution for this is something like adblock. There's probably some greasemonkey scripts that could solve this issue too.

(BTW it has probably nothing to do with spyware)
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post #12 of 15
3/4/09 at 1:58am
I'm still a little confused. Is this happening ON Facebook (those ads on the side?), or is this happening on isohunt? And if so, is isohunt partnered with Facebook?

I thought this was happening on a site with no relation to Facebook, hence my mentioning of potential spyware issues. I will default to the real techies on here, though.

Regarding security issues and torrents, etc., I'm certainly not the most qualified to speak here. I actually don't even use torrents. I do know that multiple torrent sites and ptp systems at least used to be spyware laden, but maybe things have changed.
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post #13 of 15
3/4/09 at 2:08am
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Originally Posted by dreary louse View Post
I'll check on this cookie business when I get home, but in any case, this is right out of Minority Report except there is a portal one has to voluntarily travel thru (Facebook registration). And that we're just fine with taking personal information for whatever venture, without the help of a government.

Yes, a free site needs to make money somehow, but this is getting a little over-the-top (though the logical next-step in branding and marketing).
Why is this over the top? Do you really think that half the ads you see are the same ads everybody sees out there? Your browsing history is being used to determine what ads to feed you.
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post #14 of 15
3/4/09 at 2:18am
Ads don't generally know your browsing history. Now google ads, might know a bit about your search history. If you're getting ads that are looking at your general browser history, unplug your computer from the internet and fix the problem.

@kungfumonkey

I think he said the ad was on a non-facebook site. I believe the way to have the ad access your facebook cookies is to have the ad tunnel to the facebook domain and then pass along the facebook related information (only the facebook domain has access to the facebook cookies). This is sort of explained in this post (which is a bit old now) ...

http://log.does-not-exist.org/archiv..._steroids.html

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While, technically, Blockbuster can't look for a facebook cookie, it can give facebook the opportunity to look for it itself, and in the process hand off information about the purchase. That can be done through redirects, frames, or any other number of techniques. Some of these techniques involve JavaScript, some don't. Ultimately, what we have here is the return of the 1990s third-party cookie, but on steroids, and used not just to track users' page views, but to link business information across vendors.
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post #15 of 15
3/4/09 at 2:27am
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Why is this over the top? Do you really think that half the ads you see are the same ads everybody sees out there? Your browsing history is being used to determine what ads to feed you.
I honestly thought everyone was being offered sex by fat women from a village 30 miles away from where I live. A village that no one that doesn't live here has never heard of.

Now I feel targeted.
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