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From: AlleyCat on 6 Jun 2010 00:04 In article <Xns9D8DAB4EB4140bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>, bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com says... > Although, it�s not actually a record > of what you bought at all. It�s a record of what somebody bought. Respectfully disagree. Grocery shopping is hardly ever done today, without some kind of "membership" card being involved. I go to Kroger. I use my Kroger card nearly every time I purchase ANYTHING, because it means getting it at a lower price than marked. Still getting ripped off, but it's usually a better price than most chains... when you use the card. I'm pretty sure there is some kind of information taken from the card at time of purchase. Google and other information gathering sites may not be getting "personal" information about us when we visit their sites, but they know where you're from geographically, down to the city level. Kind of creeps me out when I visit a site and it asks me, usually through an advertisement on the page, if I want to buy something or date someone in my town. I buys what I wants and I dates who I wants, and she usually does the grocery shopping for me now ;) Al
From: Shadow on 6 Jun 2010 07:40 On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:04:47 -0500, AlleyCat <al(a)aohell.com> wrote: >Google and other information >gathering sites may not be getting "personal" information about us when we visit their sites, but >they know where you're from geographically, down to the city level. Kind of creeps me out when I >visit a site and it asks me, usually through an advertisement on the page, if I want to buy >something or date someone in my town. City level ? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ More like house level: https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=1910.0 One of them you have to allow by clicking an allow box (mine was clicked by default, strange), one of them (the one that collects MAC addresses from nearby routers, is on by default. Both can be turned off in about:config If you use firefox. gOd knows what iexplorer does with your data. Probably matches your windows license to your home/work address, for every site you visit. []'s http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/4319/firefox-35-how-to-disable-location-aware-browsing/ set geo-wifi.url to localhost, of course. I believe chrome is even more intrusive, but a bottoms man will post in a few minutes saying he doesn't mind :)
From: Shadow on 6 Jun 2010 08:39 On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:22:41 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote: >> I believe chrome is even more intrusive, but a bottoms man >> will post in a few minutes saying he doesn't mind :) ITYS >> > >OMG...I think both of you should unplug your Cat5 immediately. I mean, >somebody might try to sell you something you probably will like, instead >of random offers. I have never received an ad on my gmail account. Or my Yahoo account. Maybe the NSA filter them out for me. Or maybe because I always state my income as "owing to the bank" or a negative number and occupation as "unemployed terrorist" ;) Happy geo-browsing.
From: AlleyCat on 7 Jun 2010 01:32 In article <Xns9D8F4B13F9BEbearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>, bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com says... > somebody might try to sell you something you probably will like > Like I said... I buys what I wants. I'm not the kind that lets advertisements sway me.
From: AlleyCat on 8 Jun 2010 01:41
In article <Xns9D90337D5CF1bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>, bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com says... > AlleyCat <al(a)aohell.com> wrote in > news:MPG.267640686f0cd0da989712(a)news.eternal-september.org: > > > In article <Xns9D8F4B13F9BEbearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net>, > > bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com says... > >> somebody might try to sell you something you probably will like > >> > > Like I said... I buys what I wants. I'm not the kind that lets > > advertisements sway me. > > > > How do you know about it? > > It? |