Banggood invades social networking

I do not communicate through social networking, although the rest of the family does. This may be coincidence?

There was never anything for ads on my wife's Facebook suggesting flashlights to her.

Then sometime shortly after joining the M4DM4X blog when the MaxToch deal come about, BangGood has been invading her FaceBook.

I have not used any codes posted on the M4DM4X blog, though while at BangGood I did save a MaxToch light to my favorites. Since that time, BangGood has been invading my wife's Facebook

on a daily basis advertising their website and MaxToch. Prior to the M4DM4X blog coming about I was already a BangGood customer and had ordered one flashlight from them. There has been nothing linked to that purchase being advertised. I suspect the invasion is linked to the blog. I could be wrong. If I am, convince me.

Has anyone else experienced this Facebook invasion from BangGood?

I do not have a need for Facebook or plan to use it. I know nothing about, or just enough that I stay away from a gossiping drama bunch that have nothing better to do than voice their opinions without remorse.

My guess is that it’s Facebook/Google invading, not BangGood… BangGood just pays Facebook…

Facebook has ads? I do not know (I do not use facebook). Web pages have cookies and information is collected. I do not think that a store invades social webs, I think that social web sites charge money to people who post ads, and receive information about users’ browsing uses …

All companies do this. If you visit amazon, amazon will invade your Facebook feed. All they do is store small bits of information in a cookie file on your computer. And this is shared with Facebook via their Advertising system. They only way you can stop this is to open an incognito or private window and login with Facebook in there. Once you close the private window all the links to the cookie sharing information is destroyed.

Chances are your (public) IP address (amongst other techniques) is used for ad-targeting.

Pretty sure its her www browser and fb linking things up / together based on www browsing history. FB uses www browsing history to trend its advertising banners towards user tendencies. FB also uses amazon search history in the same way… although I am not sure exactly how it achieves this.

You can delete cookies and history from your www browser. Then only use incognito browsing, this way all traces are deleted when you close the session.

Facebook Pixel is on all major shops to track your web journey through all your sessions. My facebook feed is packed with BG, GB, …

i.e. they put something that looks like this into the source:

< !— Facebook Pixel Code —>

< script>
!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?
n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;
n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=‘2.0’;n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;
t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s);}(window,
document,‘script’,‘//connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’);
// Insert Your Facebook Pixel ID below.
fbq(‘init’, ‘734859972893275’);
fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’);
< /script>

I'm not too worried. Except for the fact my wife knows what flashlight I may be about to buy!! LOL

I may have to put this google search / advertising and spamming to the real fleshy test, and go visit some cat house websites.

The other thing you will need to do is delete all apps from your/her phone…. access Amazon, facebook (etc) through an icognito www browser, or open source “wrapper” apps if you are on Android. Where (once again) you can delete cookies, history and traces of where you’ve been.

Other than a few forums, I don’t use facebook, twitter, or any other form of social media. I like to keep a low profile on the internet.

I resemble that. Heck, I have no need for a cell phone aside to make a call. When my cell phone evolved to a smart phone, I got smarter, or so I'm led to believe.

Just another way to be distracted in life.

It happens to me as well if I disable my adblocker. It’s quite funny to see the page of a local newspaper with ads for flashlights from China. That’s how facebook, google and others get their income.

Yeah FB does targeted ads based on sites you visit and what you view in your Amazon cart. A little trippy when you first notice it but after a while it just fades in with all the other white noise.

Even better, install Ad Block Plus and you’ll never see those ads again.

Facebook and Google probably use so much brain power, computer power and recourses to make their ads delivery better it is almost a shame for humankind it goes into that.
The algorithms probably picked up on your behavior and decided BG ads are better served then the ads your wife got before.
At the top right of a lot of ads one can say not to show them.
Or just have your wife do a little online shopping spree to change what is shown to her :wink:

Yeah, it’s crazy how they link things to you now. I’ve even seen suggested friends with whom I have no relationship with, except very very remotely through work. They are getting better and better. It’s a little scary and annoying, but it doesn’t bother me too much I guess.

I hadn’t noticed any Banggood ads, but maybe I’m not paying attention. I definitely notice ads for everything on Amazon after I do some browsing.

I’ve been using Adblock for years. Never have a problem with ads.

Google controls the ads , not facebook/banggood .

I use adblock as well. Nice plug.

Interestingly, I was happy to receive ads for BangGood and GearBest on Facebook; it’s so much better than the other junk that I receive. At least BangGood and GearBest give me joy with their super low price flashlights.

yeah same here, I dont mind ad of things I am interested in :wink:
my ain browser has no flash or java enabled so I really don’t know how bad ads can be :wink: