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Post by 10ga on Sept 15, 2013 9:05:22 GMT -5
Had to give proboards A birthday date toget logged back into Dougs. Whats up with them needing that info again? I think it's NOTB. Well I'll say i don't like the intrusivness of their demands for info. I suspect they will be quite free with distributing their "harvest" if they can get some $ for it. Does anyone know what their plans are for the info they have on the usere here? Remember if they call you paranoid it does not mean they are not watching or out to "get" you.
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Post by GMB54-120 on Sept 16, 2013 10:28:40 GMT -5
Im not sure whats going on with that but i use Mozilla FireFox with AdBlock Plus addon(easy list filter). Its a certified addon by Firefox. It stops all those banners, popups and junk. Every time i login it asks me to turn it off. Yeah right, im going to turn off my spam blocker!!!! It does wonders getting rid of all the feces on HNI's forum too.
LMFAO
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Post by Savage Shooter on Sept 17, 2013 12:39:25 GMT -5
Im not sure whats going on with that but i use Mozilla FireFox with AdBlock Plus addon(easy list filter). Its a certified addon by Firefox. It stops all those banners, popups and junk. Every time i login it asks me to turn it off. Yeah right, im going to turn off my spam blocker!!!! It does wonders getting rid of all the feces on HNI's forum too. LMFAO Same here!
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Post by GMB54-120 on Sept 17, 2013 20:25:17 GMT -5
I turned my AdBlock Plus off the other day to run some tests and went over to HNI forum. AVG's URL scanner is reporting HNI has the iframe/html exploit for some members but my URL scans came back clean.
OMG i could not believe all the garbage EVERYWHERE on HNI!! They have more spam than the spammers!!!!
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Post by rossman40 on Sept 24, 2013 7:58:56 GMT -5
It's becoming a info grabbing monster. The little ad is a revenue maker for the website but then the ad company slips in trackers and info bots. All to collect data on what people see or show interest in and then tailor the ads to show you something you might buy. And then it feeds the statisticians all these numbers.
But it is just not the internet anymore. Your credit card info is used to figure out buying habits on what, when and where. Even the license plate readers that you see on police cars, at intersections and other places dump their info to two companies to let them know where everybody drives. If your data goes into to a data base it can be sold. Someday your going to go into a job interview and they are going to know more about you then you do. They are going to have your medical records, all the legal data, all your internet posts, what sites you visited (even your Brazilian fart fetish sites), if you may have drove around in areas known for drug sales and probly how much whipped cream, booze and cigarettes you buy a week. They'll even know what flavor of edible underwear you may have bought at Victoria Secrets.
We have two companies here in the Dayton area, Lexis-Nexis which started out as a legal database and then turned into a people finder by having access to every muncipal government database. If you want to find a deadbeat dad they can tell you any legal action such as tickets or even a house, any tax info including IRS W2s, any driver or other license, if he has a car or any registered vehicle, and if he paid any utility bill or has a credit card and where he used it,, anywhere in the US.
Then their spin-off Teradata, which specializes in "enterprise analytic technologies and services" that include data warehousing, business intelligence and CRM solutions. Customer relationship management (CRM) is a model for managing a company’s interactions with current and future customers. Basicly you take all the data you collected and it will tell you what people are buying, when and how. Then how many times they called customer service or if they threw away that product and bought a different one.
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Post by 10ga on Sept 24, 2013 21:01:36 GMT -5
Ross, I figured that was the way of things. Of course this is the internet and everybody tells the absolute truth about everything, LOL. And nobody actually pays cash, or does business by snail mail, or with a throwaway phone, or gives a discount for cash, or hoards survival stuff. I certainly enjoy "going places" and seeing what comes of the information I "have" to provide.
Long ago I learned when calling a line to place an order by phone at like Cabelas, LL Bean etc... Do not wait, if they say "all lines busy, please wait XY minutes" I instantly hang up. I will call back within the hour but will not wait. Pretty soon they know you(your number) won't wait and you will go to the front of the line. And I like the "after the call surveys too". I'm always polite but often tell them about a "sale" they missed because I had to wait but "needed" the item PDQ, like overnite, and paid more somewhere else that I didn't have to wait.
Retirement has given me time to have so much fun so many different ways.
And those "plate" scanners, I hope they read the bumper stickers too, LOL.
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Post by GMB54-120 on Sept 24, 2013 21:48:50 GMT -5
There is a great way to get back at the junk mail Send back the pre paid postage envelope they usually include but don't fill out anything. Cram even more junk in it too and remove any reference to your name. They will be charged for the postage and the labor to open it up. Plus they can throw it away instead of you and it helps support the post office.
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