Anyone else getting these bizarre fetish group suggestions on their Facebook?

[Comfort Eagle]

I have this creepy shit suggested constantly and don't understand why. I'm not already in any tickle fetish groups, i don't have any tickle fetish shit Liked, I am friends with like 3 models on their actual personal accounts and they don't have any of this crap on their.

It's obnoxious and the last thing I need is a friend to look at me on Facebook and see "Toe sucking laughmonglers" on the side bar. How to I get rid of this shit?

 

[knicks255]

No idea. Maybe it's based on your browsing habits? I know some websites read the cookies on your browser to see what kind of sites you visit and adjust suggestions accordingly.

You can probably block it in your Privacy Settings, but I'm not totally sure.

 

[Flatfoot]

I can't say I have, either. My Facebook is pretty gosh - darn vanilla, but I also primarily use the phone app, anymore (Is it bad when you reach a point where you're too lazy to turn on a laptop, because you don't want to deal with the starting up?). I don't often get recommendations through the app.

 

[Angel_2]

I'm getting some of the same stuff, its strange it just shows up on the side of the page and it makes me feel uncomfortable cause nobody knows that I'm into women's feet and tickling. you aren't alone I know that for sure

 

[NEPATickler86]

I've also started seeing a lot of group recommendations for kink stuff... Makes me very uncomfortable, I keep my social media totally vanilla.

 

[Myriads]

Facebook is looking at your friends, and seeing what groups they belong to. Then mirroring those back at you. Odds are you have more then one person on your list that belongs to one of those groups, and once you have two its a 'trend' in your friends, and thus something you get suggested.

Myriads

 

[mopug]

Facebook also likes to look into your web browsing habits. I use two different web browsers (one for facebook/other vanilla stuff and the other for any sexual/fetish related things) so stuff like that doesn't happen.

I also routinely clear my browser history and delete cookies. A good anti-spyware program is always helpful for this too.

 

[Raytheon]

All it takes is for someone to have accessed kink stuff on the same network as you accessing your Facebook for your profile to be linked permanently to that kink activity. I started getting ads for Teens and Cougars, a few other people at my local coffee house did too. Turns out they had a guy who likes to watch porn on his mobile through the free wifi whilst, I'm assuming, enjoying a fappuccino lol.

Ultimately, its an unfortunate and unavoidable part of modern internet usage. Recording literally everything from everywhere picks up the kinky stuff too, all you can do is ignore it until companies start filtering out mature content from their recommendations properly.

 

[Prooster_Price]

LOL Did my book show up on your page? I paid for that ad to run for about a day and a half. (That's the budget I'm on, and the ad price for a day and a half is practically nothing.)

 

[Prooster_Price]

Addendum: Just this minute, when I logged into Facebook, I got an ad that directly related to an image search that I ran yesterday from a whole other computer, but one where I regularly log into Facebook from. The ad had the precise image that I searched on Google Images. (Not related to tickling, but rather, to my professional work.) So yes, Facebook is able to track your searches in other domains.

 

[FeatherEndeavor]

Addendum: Just this minute, when I logged into Facebook, I got an ad that directly related to an image search that I ran yesterday from a whole other computer, but one where I regularly log into Facebook from. The ad had the precise image that I searched on Google Images. (Not related to tickling, but rather, to my professional work.) So yes, Facebook is able to track your searches in other domains.

Oh yeah, that's normal. And it's not just Facebook. I can do a Google Search on my desktop and a few days later I might do a search for something on my phone that starts with the same letter as the search I did on my desktop. When I type in that first letter on my phone it auto-populates the search I did on my desktop. So any searches you make or websites that you go to can affect the pop ups or suggestions in Facebook or any other site. And it doesn't mater what computer you're on as long as you're logged into your account.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

My friend list on FB runs the gamut from vanilla to kink, but I don't get any of those suggestions or trends. At the most, all I see are toy collector groups or model fanpages.