Conspiracy?? Lol

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by TimW, Oct 8, 2018.

  1. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Hired a termite company a few months ago. Exchanged a few emails in GMAIL with them. Guess whose ad just showed up on my Facebook page??
     
  2. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    You probably had a ginormous amount of termites. :D :rolleyes:

    On a more serious note...
    This has been a 'thing' with Gmail and not any of the other email providers.
     
  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    So gmail is searching my mail and selling it to FB??
     
  4. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    It's not that simple.
    A few years ago I received an invite from Twoo. Some @$$hole signed up my friend without her knowledge. What Twoo does is send an invite to all your contacts if you have a Gmail address. Was Google in on this? We'll never know.

    I don't know what, if anything, Google offers small businesses when they use Gmail.
    What I do know is the love of money has no boundaries.
    On the internet, you have no privacy. And everyone wants a slice of the money pie...
     
  5. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    What I found ironic was a survey request from FB about my experience with them and how I felt about my security!! I don't think they will like my answers!!
     
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  6. the mekanic

    the mekanic Major Mekanical Geek

    Cookies have been made with new recipes as of late...
     
  7. DOA

    DOA MG's Loki

    Sounds like the termites hacked your gmail account and are suggesting the least effective company on your FB page - BEWARE!
     
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  8. Anon-469e6fb48c

    Anon-469e6fb48c Anonymized

    Is this another one of your email conspiracy theories Tim.May be you should stop using fakebook for a while.I rarely touch mine.Or may be clean out your cookies every once in a while.
     
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  9. Private DillWeed

    Private DillWeed Private E-2

    To each his own i personalty removed all google entities from my PC other than one stubborn chrome folder that has no permissions
    i use brave a a browser no chrome or fire fox <chrome jr.> and so on excite.com for emails (yes i still use it)
    is an actual fact that in an environment like ours advertisement serves as an income back door (free money to google)
    as you will have it
    so no not a conspiracy but yes if you have worries i agree with wile e coyote be vigilant
    clean you cookies history or even use tor <-- all stock in brave browser
    i would say get cclean from here but is pushes chrome and wont clean chrome stuff (!Sorry Drill Sargent!)XD
    use a different email when dealing with contracts pest repairs so on
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    this is were i buy sell amazon eBay contractors
    #I LOVE BRAVE
     
  10. Private DillWeed

    Private DillWeed Private E-2

    10 seconds in cnet.com
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  11. Replicator

    Replicator MajorGeek

    If you agree with Wile then you are Certifiable.

    Oh dear Lord, help me to forgive!
     
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  12. Anon-469e6fb48c

    Anon-469e6fb48c Anonymized

  13. Imandy Mann

    Imandy Mann MajorGeekolicious

    Around the end of summer I was working in an office building changing out air equipment, The spaces were really tight. We needed a small ~14 ft lift. I searched online at rental companies and on Amazinon. Found several. company wouldn't respond quick so I wound up using an electric wench. Here's a pic

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    Well, a week later I was reading an article on copper line lenght limitations and guess what popped up in an ad on the side. My partner couldn't believe. No one we know who even works in this field had ever seen this on the internet at all. Had to be my search set it off. Sales people are really digging in to make a dollar!
     
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  14. Private DillWeed

    Private DillWeed Private E-2

    i have to i own ACME enterprises and he is one of our most valuable costumers (meep meep)
     

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