Earlier this morning it was in the single digits and I had some shit to accomplish outside.
I headed to the hardware store and grabbed a few things I needed. As I was walking down one aisle I asked an employee if the had "hand warmers", they were 2 aisles over I was told. I grabbed a packages so I could use them in my gloves.
I paid cash for them and left. I never did a search for them on my iphone or computer. It was a spur of the moment purchase and the only time I mentioned "hand warmers" was to the guy at the store.
Either my phone was listening to me and siri was reading my thoughts... OR that guy works for Bezos as well.
Long story short....
This is what has shown up on my Amazon account today, listed as "items to explore"....
My reaction....
"They" are listening. It happened today when my wife an I were waiting on our food at a restaurant. She showed me a meme that had a baby goat as the subject. I asked her if she'd ever heard of "fainting goats". Seconds later, I told her to search YouTube for them. When she did the first thing that popped up was "fainting goats". I believe it has something to do with the terms and conditions of certain "apps" and primarily Zuckerbook of which I am not a member.
ReplyDeleteThe Mrs. got a "you might like" on the book that she wrote that's on Amazon. Ha!
ReplyDeleteIf your phone was on then that is almost certainly what happened.....FarceBook, Gaggle etc. etc. ALL listen in constantly via the phone mic and routinely report back to HQ for surveillance and marketing purposes....why the hell do you think battery life always sucks on modern smart phones.
ReplyDeleteNo disrespect intended, but it appears to me that you need to turn off or disable most of the apps on the phone, including the microphone, so your conversations can't be listened to, as described. Otherwise, get a burner phone and throw away the googleamazon spy.
ReplyDeleteIw talking to a guy at work and
ReplyDeleteMentioned Drudge turned on my phone and there was a ad for it
So can everyone start saying "Put Schiff in jail"?
ReplyDeleteNot the same thing, but similar.
ReplyDeleteI buy stuff at Walmart, both in store and online, using the same debit card. When I go to Walmart's web site and click the reorder button, it shows most of the stuff I buy in the store. They have a profile of me that knows what I buy both online and in the store, based on my debit card number. A little weird, but it really helps when I make a shopping list by showing me what I usually buy there.
I don't own a "smart phone" for this very reason. It is my understanding that you can't turn them off anymore these days, but not owning one or having any desire to, I've not researched features. Even my dumb phone stays off when I'm out and about. I also turned off the mic on the Xfinity channel clicker as soon as it became operational.
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I was at Home Depot a while back and stopped to look at Refrigerators. I opened a couple of doors to look inside. that was it. When I got home and sat down at the computer, all I was getting were ads for new Fridges. Creepy actually.
ReplyDeleteLast week, as the wife and I were driving home from my Mom's place after Thanksgiving, we stopped off at the ghost town of Shakespeare, Arizona. We were lucky to get a private tour of the privately-owned site.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, we spent some time in the blacksmith shop, which was being restored. I enjoy blacksmithing, so had a lot of questions.
When we got home, I got on Youtube and there were a bunch of blacksmithing videos under suggested videos - and I've never search for any blacksmithing videos on Youtube, ever. I did have my iPhone 8 in my pocket during the tour, though.
I had a conversation with my girlfriend about telescopes and later that evening all the ads online when she was on Facebook and Pinterest were about telescopes!!
ReplyDeleteHer iPhone was on the coffee table in front of us while we talked.....
Has happened many times since on various subjects...
Big Brother is listening...
But if you ask Siri if she's listening, or spying on you, she'll tell you "NO".
DeleteI was scratching my private parts pretty vigorously. Some sort of bad jock itch. And what do you know, I began to get photos of Hillary Clinton in my email. It's uncanny.
ReplyDeleteSteve in Greensboro
Its the 3rd party software if you've got siri, alexa, whoever turned off. They will also listen and upload while in airplane mode. Happened to me camping where cell service was miles away.
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