Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 01, 2024

Valium     because Big Data is concerned about your health

Google search can profile the searcher?

I went to Lowes last night for the first time in, I don’t know how long and had a Lowes ad on my computer

I wish there was some way to annoy those marketers the way they annoy us.

I haven’t had that problem since I gave up cookies.

My old RCA clock radio finally died, and I did a search on clock radios. Once.

The next time I checked mail, I had an advert from LaCrosse (if you don’t know them, they sell battery chargers) for clock radios.

I’m going to set up FF’s cookie-purge facility, keeping only the ones that I’d otherwise have to remember a pw for, such as GC. LaCrosse will no longer be allowed even to use a session cookie

This is a bit stunning.

I just retrieved my paper mail, including a letter from the “US Bank” (that’s apparently its name) in Owensboro Ky.

To my knowledge, I’ve never been in Kentucky, not even to drive thru. And as long as McConnell is alive, I never will either.

So I open the letter and discover a pitch for a new-home loan. How in hell would a bank in Kentucky be pitching me for a new-home loan. How would they even know of my existence or where to find me?

Then I see that the Meijer grocery chain has some sort of relationship with that bank system. I shop at the local Meijer’s, tho perhaps not for much longer, now.

They are already starting to automate dynamic billboards based on the profiles of the majority of the phones in the viewing area.

Just wait until our vehicles are all fully autonomous. The end-state of that technology will requires a massive amount of data sharing in the quest for efficiency. Naturally, that data will be shared and/or stolen constantly.

You won’t be able to “opt out” by driving an older vehicle because non-autonomous vehicles will be banned as they are not safe enough or not green enough.

I’m glad I never got addicted to a smart phone. Mine remains turned off until I need it to make a call on a journey.

You’re phone is spying on you, and that’s no yoke.

Way before I start working in my garage, I shut my pone down and leave it in the house. Ah, peace and quiet!

Oh yeah? Then why did I just get an ad for medicine to cure paranoia?

I’ve had good luck with Duck Duck Go. Searches are private, it blocks tracking and cookie attempts. Plus, it blocks pop up ads.

My feature phone can barely web, so I don’t.

The big data thing is interesting to me because I was involved in it for many years. I worked at companies that developed and advanced the data warehousing that eventually grew into the big data projects we see. I even worked on the one of first loyalty cards. I knew the databases could manage data the way we see them doing now, but I never imagined that input devices and techniques for data collection could be developed to make it this intrusive.

He’s forgetting about all those searches he did before he went out to the shop. Rookie mistake.

Whew! It’s not just me then.

When they can read your thoughts, you WILL get target adds according to your thoughts. If you think you have a right to privacy, think again…..

OTOH if you didn’t carry your phone everywhere it might not know you are spending excessive time in the garage.

We went to a sporting goods store early last spring to find heavy jackets as we planned on a trip to Iceland in the fall. We didn’t buy anything but they sold North Ridge jackets. We started to get North Ridge ads on our computer!

Don’t buy stuff over the phone.

I’ve had that happen too.

If you just load DuckDuckGo on your phone it will block App tracking and others for free. You don’t even have to use it.

Follow the $$$ trail…and abusing your privacy…for profit

Had that happen yesterday. Fiance and I were to go target shooting at a local gun club with a member, who she is friends with. Prior to leaving I started getting ads for how to obtain a concealed carry permit and another for what states you can legally carry a gun. Big Brother is definitely watching…

I’m with arlo on this one.

Why is Arlo (or anyone in the comments) surprised that smartphones can listen in on your conversations? ALEXA and similar devices exist. The technology is not limited to those devices.

I have NEVER had any ad on my cell phone related to anything to me or what I have said or what I have texted to my husband (only use for texting and as in “come down for dinner”).