Weird internet stuff

[Ossian]

Pneumann, I didn't click on the site but it was Clint Eastwood. Just googled and he seems to be doing okay.

Edit: I've also seen the Sean Connery one as well.

[hudds]

Pneumann, I didn't click on the site but it was Clint Eastwood. Just googled and he seems to be doing okay.

Edit: I've also seen the Sean Connery one as well.

How's Will Hay?

[MassDebater]

The whoever at whatever age is amazing / disgusting / dying type ones are just ads that some sites use... Pretty sure they're just ads fed to the sites (e.g. E & D always has them). The site will set aside an area and the code will pull a feed of ads in, nowt to do with your history etc...

Check out Brave browser if you're overly worried.

[Babel]

Pneumann, I didn't click on the site but it was Clint Eastwood. Just googled and he seems to be doing okay.

Edit: I've also seen the Sean Connery one as well.

How's Will Hay?

Arf

[Babel]

I don't know if it's anything to do with my browsing profile* but I keep seeing quite odd links (with pictures) popping up at random. A regular one is 'How [insert name of celebrity] lives now at [insert age of celebrity] will make you really sad'. Will it? Why would that be?

I don't click on them, nor on anything else that looks dodgy, but even after a clearout of browsing history, caches, cookies etc. they're soon back.

* My browsing history - aside from this place - is mostly sites like the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, and one campaigning for the reintroduction of wolves and lynx. I can't imagine any of them are firing off bots or whatever it is they're called. Could it be Putin?

These links often appear at the end of (or sometimes interspersed wuth) news or sports stories I click on from other media websites. I just assumed they were paid ads. Anyway, it isn't just you, but you'll be surprised what Mary Ellen from the Waltons looks like now.

<must not click>

[4-hero]

* My browsing history - aside from this place - is mostly sites like the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, and one campaigning for the reintroduction of wolves and lynx. 

That old chestnut

[Babel]

My attention span has compacted hugely since the waves of information what came from the internet washed over, and that's seriously meant. I used to be able to focus for hours, but now it's click, click, click.

Oooh, look at THaT!

[Ossian]

Today I've already been offered the opportunity to browse wedding photos which went horribly wrong. Difficult to imagine why anybody would want to do that, but at least the possibility is there for those who do.

Oh, and some woman I've never heard of apparently looks gorgeous now.

[hudds]

Today I've already been offered the opportunity to browse wedding photos which went horribly wrong. Difficult to imagine why anybody would want to do that, but at least the possibility is there for those who do.

Oh, and some woman I've never heard of apparently looks gorgeous now.

That'll be BaggieMad

[fuzzbox]

Today I've already been offered the opportunity to browse wedding photos which went horribly wrong. Difficult to imagine why anybody would want to do that, but at least the possibility is there for those who do.

Oh, and some woman I've never heard of apparently looks gorgeous now.

That'll be BaggieMad

You're lucky - they obviously think you're younger than me! I get them telling me somebody I vaguely remember from the 80s DAUGHTER looks gorgeous now! (They've obviously thought that her looking 'gorgeous' anymore stretches credibility!)

They're definitely contextual adverts and google skews them in the direction it thinks matches you.

I'm off to look at porn for a few days. Purely to lower my internet age, obviously...