Seems like a lot of scripts not related to gathering census data.

[Odoreida]

Am I a paranoid? Because I feel like a paranoid.



Here's a closer look.

[TwilightZone]

1. They're ads.

Just about every website has them, including government ones.

[Odoreida]

2. So much for census data being private. n/t

[2naSalit]

3. +1

Exactly what I suspected would happen.

The only remedy will be for the next admin to rerun the census. It will be costly but can be done as there is a single date for which data is collected and can be replicated at a later time when actual adults are back in charge.

[jberryhill]

7. No. Look at the screenshot in the OP

See that toolbar?

The OP runs with all that crap turned on.

[customerserviceguy]

10. Good point

I didn't notice that, because I generally expect the terminate-and-stay-resident software to show up in the lower right hand corner. Great catch there.

[TwilightZone]

4. That doesn't mean that the ads have access to your data.

It just means that the page has links to the ads.

Financial institutions, for example, nearly all have ads on their websites. That doesn't mean that the ads have access to your bank data, even if the ads are on the pages for online banking.

[jberryhill]

6. It doesn't even mean that

The OP runs a browser with one do those idiotic toolbars turned on and populated by shit.

You see YouTube and Google in the list of stuff? You see YouTube and google crap in the toolbar?

That’s what is going on here.

[jberryhill]

5. You are not paranoid enough

That’s your freaking toolbar laden with crap.

[jberryhill]

8. Here. Click on this and learn what you did to yourself...

Those results have nada to do with the census website.

https://www.google.com/search?q=browser+toolbar+spyware

You have permitted a load of third party software to ride shotgun with your browser and monitor everything you do.

You need to get rid of browser add-one and turn off the toolbar.

[MineralMan]

11. Did you mean to reply to yourself?