Comments on: ¿Que pasa, Garth? https://habitablezone.com/2013/08/21/que-pasa-garth/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alcaray https://habitablezone.com/2013/08/21/que-pasa-garth/#comment-26274 alcaray Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:36:35 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=36903#comment-26274 Additionally, there are a million crappy little marketing companies that put cookies on your pc to track your clicks and allow them to make inferences about your preferences. For the big companies, opt out if you can (but don't put any faith in the effectiveness of doing so) and/or avoid using them (and avoid all the companies that they are buying up). For the crappy little guys, get and run *often* a cleaner to remove all their cookies, or do it manually. Oh, and did I mention social media? Additionally, there are a million crappy little marketing companies that put cookies on your pc to track your clicks and allow them to make inferences about your preferences.

For the big companies, opt out if you can (but don’t put any faith in the effectiveness of doing so) and/or avoid using them (and avoid all the companies that they are buying up). For the crappy little guys, get and run *often* a cleaner to remove all their cookies, or do it manually.

Oh, and did I mention social media?

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2013/08/21/que-pasa-garth/#comment-26272 Robert Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:07:06 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=36903#comment-26272 Maybe your browser is set to tell web sites that Spanish is your preferred language. If that were the case, though, you'd be getting more Spanish content pushed at you by more web sites. Still, you might want to check your browser settings; can't tell you where, it varies by browser, from prominent on a menu to buried deep in a dialog box. The other possibility is likely zip code profiling--your IP address resolves into a zip code at which demographic data says a lot of people sprechen zie espanol. Maybe it was your refusal to act on the initial English buy! command that forced them to resort to a possible second language. You may need to buy the fabric softener, and be sure to use a coupon, store loyalty card, or pay with credit card, in order to get your purchase put on your permanent record. Then they'll just bombard you only in English to keep you going back for more. That'll make it better, right? Maybe your browser is set to tell web sites that Spanish is your preferred language. If that were the case, though, you’d be getting more Spanish content pushed at you by more web sites. Still, you might want to check your browser settings; can’t tell you where, it varies by browser, from prominent on a menu to buried deep in a dialog box.

The other possibility is likely zip code profiling–your IP address resolves into a zip code at which demographic data says a lot of people sprechen zie espanol.

Maybe it was your refusal to act on the initial English buy! command that forced them to resort to a possible second language. You may need to buy the fabric softener, and be sure to use a coupon, store loyalty card, or pay with credit card, in order to get your purchase put on your permanent record. Then they’ll just bombard you only in English to keep you going back for more. That’ll make it better, right?

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