bob turner wrote:
They will pester you about twice a day to buy something. I just hit the trash button, but I am sure that option can be turned off.
Seen that pestering carp before. FaceBook and Spamazon are the worst visibly at tracking your movements and spam/scam with ads.
Windoze 10 is probably the highest profile running in the background.
I have very little that sneaks past. MicroSlime, even though they try, just cannot seem to make XP their spy on users. So I get none of that, no telemetry back to MS, no "unique advertiser ID" with MS. Log out of FB, clean cookies. Have ad blockers, user-agent switcher, remove-it-permanently......lots of add-ons in FireFox, which they fixed a while back when they went to a new engine..and you can't load older legacy items that actually worked.
But they shot themselves in the foot.
Can't load anything newer than FF52ESR on XP, so all my legacy add-ons work. Blocks stuff we used to be able to block, but with the Brave New World, the movers in the internet world kill off our ability to block ads, block script, kill third party cookies...because they NEED to know WHO you are, where you've been, what you look at, and sell that data on to marketers for big bucks.
New moro.....errr...guy in charge at MS basically said that when 10 came out. They USED to make money by selling and maintaining software. Not any more. They give the software away, and spy and track on everything you do.
There are folks who will tell you that isn't what's happening. And to just get used to it.
That IS what's happening, and I for one ain't getting used to it.
Do you think it's right your new photo service defaults to spamming you?
When you initially signed in, did it give you options for opting out?
They used to.
Now it defaults to spam.
I am almost at the point of separate devices for separate tasks.
I already have separate e-mails. Helps you track morons. Sort of like the old ads in MR or RMC.....reply to DEPT MR or reply to DEPT RMC.
I had some spam come through, a while back, lots of it, tracked easily by e-mail address to one site. I am no longer logged in to that site.
I am constantly changing minor things to combat the stupidity of websites and the lemming attitude of users.