Internet Ghost Story

[Duck]

Ok so YouTube locked me out of my YouTube account because I was registered with a hotmail e-mail address. I needed to have a gmail address. I could upload videos, but that was it. If I tried to comment on another video, I'd get this pop-up telling me to log in. I'd log in and try to comment & I'd get that same pop-up telling me to log in.

I had to go into the account settings & figure it out. So I made a gmail address and switched it over. Still, it wouldn't let me log in. I don't know what I did but I kept messing with stuff until finally this thing popped up and it knew my cell phone number somehow, which is spooky in itself. It asked if I wanted it to send me a security code. So I clicked on the thing & it sent me a text with a 6 digit number. Typed that in & it worked.

But then it said "by clicking ok you will create a Google + account". Yeah, ok whatever. Then it asked for my name so I typed in a fake name.

Ok...

New e-mail address I just made. New account. Fake name.

I log into it & I get this pop-up thing saying that Larry Wayland ( @Dawgman ) added me to his "circle" somehow.

The guy's been dead since November 2011.

****ing.
Creepy.

This ain't even funny. It's just plain creepy.

 

[Injun]

Youtube's still requiring G+, eh?

That's why I don't have a Youtube account. Get tired of things like this getting shoved down my throat. Besides. G+ sucks. Why would I want a G+ account?

 

[8978]

I can write pages about this.

CNN just did a segment yesterday about this and how Google knows everything about you and everything you ever did since the dawn of time and they store it.

I'm assuming you have a smart phone (why, I don't know but anyways) and installed an app at one point. Read what you just agreed to. Did you? NO!! Your like what's his name in South Park who agreed to have his mouth sewed to another persons ass because he clicked on yes. Don't get me wrong. I do it also.

Almost all those apps ask you if they can have all your contacts, email addresses and phone numbers then they sell them to marketing firms. Lets see, we know Duck likes **** and has the Dirty Deed App. We know he is friends with @DubbleD because they both have each others phone number but DubbleD doesn't have that App so we'll push it on him so he can sign up with a credit card and we get a cut.

You can't hide or disguise yourself. They know by cookies, contacts, registry entries and everything you buy online. Most places default to giving your info out which I think is wrong. It's up to you to go in and changes your preferences before you do anything.......BUT......that takes 10 to 14 days to take effect and you want your filthy DVD now.

Your pretty much screwed. I knew this years ago and gave up. Do any of you remember when Google use to show ads on the side years ago? They stopped that. Your mother went on your computer to look something up and all she saw was ads for ****. Same with CNN and others. They tailored your experience to your surfing habits.

I told this story before. I wanted cable at home but they said I had to be there to hook the cable up outside and I couldn't. One day there was a cable truck guy talking to a woman in my condo area. I stopped and asked if he could hook me up now without me being there. The lady he was talking to was the manager of the cable company and told him to hook me up. I got free cable and internet for 6 months before they made me sign up. During that time I saw chicks running across the beach with boobs bouncing and all my commercials directed to someone in their 20's.

When my 6 months were up I had to fill out info about myself. That was it, the boobs were gone. Now it's final expenses, limited mobility, walk in bathtubs and life insurance.

Now, here's a scarey thing. If your cable and internet is the same company and you have a cable box they can direct a specific commercial just to your TV only based on your surfing habits.

I could keep going for days.

 

[Injun]

I can write pages about this.

CNN just did a segment yesterday about this and how Google knows everything about you and everything you ever did since the dawn of time and they store it.

I'm assuming you have a smart phone (why, I don't know but anyways) and installed an app at one point. Read what you just agreed to. Did you? NO!! Your like what's his name in South Park who agreed to have his mouth sewed to another persons *** because he clicked on yes. Don't get me wrong. I do it also.

Almost all those apps ask you if they can have all your contacts, email addresses and phone numbers then they sell them to marketing firms. Lets see, we know Duck likes **** and has the Dirty Deed App. We know he is friends with @DubbleD because they both have each others phone number but DubbleD doesn't have that App so we'll push it on him so he can sign up with a credit card and we get a cut.

You can't hide or disguise yourself. They know by cookies, contacts, registry entries and everything you buy online. Most places default to giving your info out which I think is wrong. It's up to you to go in and changes your preferences before you do anything.......BUT......that takes 10 to 14 days to take effect and you want your filthy DVD now.

Your pretty much screwed. I knew this years ago and gave up. Do any of you remember when Google use to show ads on the side years ago? They stopped that. Your mother went on your computer to look something up and all she saw was ads for ****. Same with CNN and others. They tailored your experience to your surfing habits.

I told this story before. I wanted cable at home but they said I had to be there to hook the cable up outside and I couldn't. One day there was a cable truck guy talking to a woman in my condo area. I stopped and asked if he could hook me up now without me being there. The lady he was talking to was the manager of the cable company and told him to hook me up. I got free cable and internet for 6 months before they made me sign up. During that time I saw chicks running across the beach with boobs bouncing and all my commercials directed to someone in their 20's.

When my 6 months were up I had to fill out info about myself. That was it, the boobs were gone. Now it's final expenses, limited mobility, walk in bathtubs and life insurance.

Now, here's a scarey thing. If your cable and internet is the same company and you have a cable box they can direct a specific commercial just to your TV only based on your surfing habits.

I could keep going for days.

Yeh. I get the AARP commercial set, too. I wish they'd stop trying to sell me Cialis, though. I don't have a body part that stuff'd do any good on.

 

[8978]

All this info is worth big bucks. They link you up with everyone that you ever knew to get you to sign up with Google friends and LinkedIn and every other social group on the net. That way they can attract marketing firms. Same with this site. The more active this forum is the more inviting this looks to ad services.

And Injun. The Cialis isn't for you. Given your age your partner needs a pick me up. Next you'll get ads for recipes on how to grind it up.

 

[Duck]

I don't have a "smart phone".


And that still doesn't explain how a guy could have sent me a friend request or added me to his "circle" almost 3 years before I even created my G+ account, or how he'd have predicted I'd use a fake name & what that name would be.

 

[8978]

Your real name was the same on your old laptop as it is on your new one. There's a 100 ways they can make the association AND THEY DID! You had cookies on your old system and you have most of the same ones on your new computer. Your name address and tons of other stuff are plastered all over the place. YOUR SCREWED

Go to the start menu and click on run then regedit. That's the registry. Click around, you may find it interesting.

 

[Duck]

Your real name was the same on your old laptop as it is on your new one. There's a 100 ways they can make the association AND THEY DID! You had cookies on your old system and you have most of the same ones on your new computer. Your name address and tons of other stuff are plastered all over the place. YOUR SCREWED

Go to the start menu and click on run then regedit. That's the registry. Click around, you may find it interesting.

It still doesn't explain how he could have added me to his "circle" when I didn't even have a G+ account when he died though.

 

[Injun]

How do they know whether my OM has lead in his pencil or not? They in my bedroom too?

 

[8978]

I don't have all the answers. Not even close but I know they do it. He didn't add you, they are trying to get you to accept then they do it on the other end. Tons of ways.

 

[8978]

How do they know whether my OM has lead in his pencil or not? They in my bedroom too?

They put the association together, looked at his surfing habits and what he's reading about. Just kidding but this is what they do.

 

[Injun]

He's not even on the internet. I nixed the wan device. He used it for about six months, but only to look up what was being said about his club and to find motorcycle parts. He was never a registered user.

 

[8978]

He's not even on the internet. I nixed the wan device. He used it for about six months, but only to look up what was being said about his club and to find motorcycle parts. He was never a registered user.

I was using that as an example of the things they do today.

 

[Blood]

During that time I saw chicks running across the beach with boobs bouncing and all my commercials directed to someone in their 20's.

When my 6 months were up I had to fill out info about myself. That was it, the boobs were gone. Now it's final expenses, limited mobility, walk in bathtubs and life insurance.

A few yeas ago I was seeing these sidebar ads about young girls who want to meet...
ME!!

I figured it was strictly a numbers game playing on the fact that I was due for a mid-life crisis.

What was really funny though was that after noticing those ads for a couple of months and never clicking on one they changed gears.

Instead of Alexis, 25, wants to meet mature men...

I noticed an ad one day that said, Kyle, 27, wants to meet older men.

It cracked me up.
I figured the ad bot determined that since I didn't show interest in meeting young women, I must be queer.

 

[Duck]

What was really funny though was that after noticing those ads for a couple of months and never clicking on one they changed gears.

Instead of Alexis, 25, wants to meet mature men...

I noticed an ad one day that said, Kyle, 27, wants to meet older men.

It cracked me up.
I figured the ad bot determined that since I didn't show interest in meeting young women, I must be *****.

Just go to Google & type in a bunch of search terms like "hot college chicks" and "wet t-shirt contest" and stuff and there's usually ads within the Google search results or on the sidebars. Click a couple of those ads & you might end up resetting that algorithm or whatever it's called.

 

[Injun]

I get cougar/cub ads sometimes. Seriously?

 

[8978]

I get cougar/cub ads sometimes. Seriously?

They told me I can't call anymore.

 

[Kiwi303]

I get ads in Chinese...

But then, I lived in China for 13 months...

Still hasn't reset fully to ads in english, but now what english ones I do get are not of mail order brides from Russia, instead it's mail order brides from China.

TESOL jobs in China would be more to the point, I can find my own bride if I'm IN China without having to order one from a mail order catalogue.