As far as I know, Google and Facebook do not collect every single URL you visit. It wouldn’t be impossible for Chrome to do this, but I think it would be public information because of the nature and volume of that information - even though efforts can be made to disguise what it collects. Facebook basically has no such ability because it collects information by having a little thing on each page, with the agreement of the page owner, and I don’t think that thing receives any info from a successful sale (as opposed to "person browsed this product’s page)
They don’t have to collect them as in saving them, they just have to collect information about activity that would interest marketers who buy the data. “Searched for dishwashers”… “Ordered dishwasher”…
Then the marketers could process the data and go, Lovable Sidekick searched for dishwashers but didn’t buy one, maybe he’s still looking, let’s send him ads for dishwashers. Or, Lovable Sidekick bought a dishwasher, let’s not waste ad impressions showing him dishwasher ads, let’s show ads for dishwasher detergent. I mean, if I were part of that whole circus that’s how I would try to approach it.
As far as I know, Google and Facebook do not collect every single URL you visit. It wouldn’t be impossible for Chrome to do this, but I think it would be public information because of the nature and volume of that information - even though efforts can be made to disguise what it collects. Facebook basically has no such ability because it collects information by having a little thing on each page, with the agreement of the page owner, and I don’t think that thing receives any info from a successful sale (as opposed to "person browsed this product’s page)
They don’t have to collect them as in saving them, they just have to collect information about activity that would interest marketers who buy the data. “Searched for dishwashers”… “Ordered dishwasher”…
Then the marketers could process the data and go, Lovable Sidekick searched for dishwashers but didn’t buy one, maybe he’s still looking, let’s send him ads for dishwashers. Or, Lovable Sidekick bought a dishwasher, let’s not waste ad impressions showing him dishwasher ads, let’s show ads for dishwasher detergent. I mean, if I were part of that whole circus that’s how I would try to approach it.