Enzo's post #19, and Marcel's post #20 both lead me to see that these practices are quite possibly the result of propoganda, and leading consumers into contracts in a sneaky way, for sneaky purposes.
I've yet to call that Subco center and deal with them, however these types of things, besides being annoying, are marketing over-reach, just as much is today.
I've yet to call that Subco center and deal with them, however these types of things, besides being annoying, are marketing over-reach, just as much is today.
So here's a revealing turn of events. Since my post#7, the articles on my Firefox home page hosted by Pocket have been steadily disappearing. For years now my home page is filled with 2.5" X 2.5" squares hosting articles from various sources for me to click on. I'm sure many here are familiar. So the ones I simply click on "dismiss" for reasons already stated, are Bloomberg, The Atlantic, NY Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Politico, and a few others because they are immediately obscured until you either subscribe or allow cookies. However every time I've been "dismissing" one, another immediately takes it's place keeping my home page full. It could be another one of those I routinely dismiss or not, even if the dismissables repeatedly appear and I dismiss them til a non-dismissable appears. So my home page is always full of articles to click on and peruse...No More! Since I posted #7, every time I've dismissed one of those articles...another has not taken it's place. Just a 2.5" X 2.5" blank square takes it's place. So since yesterday 5pm to this post, 6 of 21 usual spaces with articles is now blank. My my, what a coincidence, albeit a bit spooky(could be aliens 👽).
nah, on second thought strike this post, I've been drinking too much coffee. It's all in my head. ☕
nah, on second thought strike this post, I've been drinking too much coffee. It's all in my head. ☕
So NOW you will have your pages filled with Starbucks ads, exotic brand coffee mixes, cappucinos, lattes. cofee makers and grinders, Italian coffee machines, French presses, decorated coffee mugs, powder and aersol creamers, etc. 😉
Search for electronic scrap.
Or old military Jeep / surplus bits. That will not give Google much to sell screen space to advertisers.
Opera gives me targeted ads, not there in Firefox, which has been crashing often lately on diyaudio, of all places...it is hardly a controversial or adult (explicit) site...
Now I am getting ads related to plastic processing machinery on this site, so they have found out my e-mail, linked it and are doing targeted work.
Maybe I should change it to a new one, and say I deal in Middle Ages food ingredients?
Or something obscure?
Or old military Jeep / surplus bits. That will not give Google much to sell screen space to advertisers.
Opera gives me targeted ads, not there in Firefox, which has been crashing often lately on diyaudio, of all places...it is hardly a controversial or adult (explicit) site...
Now I am getting ads related to plastic processing machinery on this site, so they have found out my e-mail, linked it and are doing targeted work.
Maybe I should change it to a new one, and say I deal in Middle Ages food ingredients?
Or something obscure?
Once on Facebook, I made a comment on a post by a friend, the opinion was political. I strongly disagreed, and made fun of her post, which was forwarded.
She unfriended me, and the posts stopped.
She has moved out of India, and the posts were a influence game by a political party.
The opinion was about on the ground events, for a person abroad in Europe, the reality would be a conveyed one, and the person doing the relay would color it with his own grasp of reality.
You have to be skeptical these days.
She unfriended me, and the posts stopped.
She has moved out of India, and the posts were a influence game by a political party.
The opinion was about on the ground events, for a person abroad in Europe, the reality would be a conveyed one, and the person doing the relay would color it with his own grasp of reality.
You have to be skeptical these days.
I don’t. But I started getting the damn swimsuit banner ads here on DIYAudio, despite not having googled anything related. Now they won’t quit. A year or so back, I started getting banner ads for x-rated romance novels - which started up the day after I was writing a particularly steamy chapter of a work of fiction I‘ve been working on off and on for over a decade (but most of it has nothing to do with sex). It’s in the old Word 97 - which as far as I know doesn’t phone home to Momma Microsoft like the new releases do. And it was on THE OTHER COMPUTER, not this one. Those ads took months to go away.
Actual computer is irrelevant if it shares same "home" IP address.
"They" may very well assume same user has more than 1 device at home, at least smartphone and some kind of computer, so all are fair game.
You need to have a Gmail account or similar to activate Android phones.
Simple as that.
Apple, no idea.
I can get house details for some people, including their tax bills, and built up area, fair market value, and so on, for persons in the United States, and parts of Canada, in minutes, no fees to be paid.
Even the ownership of the place for the past 15 years, and last price paid.
Big Brother is watching you!
Simple as that.
Apple, no idea.
I can get house details for some people, including their tax bills, and built up area, fair market value, and so on, for persons in the United States, and parts of Canada, in minutes, no fees to be paid.
Even the ownership of the place for the past 15 years, and last price paid.
Big Brother is watching you!
Oh surely just a little rouge. Darling, it's hard maintaining a healthy glow all day.
LOL! good one!
Interesting to note, this morning while waiting for my coffee to brew, I noticed that Vogue April 2022 edition sitting on the table.
I haven't tossed it out yet, I still have to call that place to cancel subscription and I need the info//numbers off the mailing label.
So I picked it up and noticed the couple of Feature Items/stories mentioned on the cover....
One stood out..... "Beyond Gender - Fashion's New Freedom".
Another item was...."The More The Merrier - Is Monogamy Over?"
Face it, we're being bombarded from every angle these days.
This is modern times, freedom to wear a dress, yet no freedom of speech... how odd.
Hey, lucky to get free magazines, I guess! I used to live in a far flung US state and subscribed to a weekly magazine. It came USPS media mail, meaning that they would travel by whatever slow boat was available. For weeks there would be none in my mailbox, then five or six would arrive together. 🙄 Plenty of reading material until the next boat.
@NareshBrd I've used FireFox for years on Windows and MacOs to browse diyAudio with no crashes. If you are having problems, you might want to report them over in the Forum Problems section.
@NareshBrd I've used FireFox for years on Windows and MacOs to browse diyAudio with no crashes. If you are having problems, you might want to report them over in the Forum Problems section.
Beyond gender for fashion? Been happening for decades already - watch any "designer" runway show...
As far as monogamy? It's still quite popular with CIS gendered straight people, especially if they are religious, but there are lots of people who either have an open relationship or more than one partner. That's also nothing new.
Glas you got it sorted though - I would have probably ignored it and only conplained when they sent a bill LOL
As far as monogamy? It's still quite popular with CIS gendered straight people, especially if they are religious, but there are lots of people who either have an open relationship or more than one partner. That's also nothing new.
Glas you got it sorted though - I would have probably ignored it and only conplained when they sent a bill LOL
Well, Kevin, I'm certainly not living in a cave or under a rock, I'm not against the freedoms that people are entitled to either.
I'm all for freedom and equality in fact.
However, this "push" and Front Page News of certain things recently has gotten a bit annoying.
Bad enough that my "junk email" is continually loaded with stuff I'm not interested in, I certainly don't need my home mailbox to be a target too.
My home mailbox has been overloaded with garbage forever. No I don’t want to switch auto insurance companies. No I’m not interested in ANY extended warranty on anything. And no, I’m not interested in a cash offer (for about 60% what I paid) for 20 acres of land that I intend to build on eventually. It’s not for sale.
Yup. I get a lot more junk flyers in the mail than ads or email. I use ad blocking DNS servers, MS and Google have good spam filtering, too.
My email address for kodasonic hasn't received a single email in a year.
My email address for kodasonic hasn't received a single email in a year.