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Sep 28, 2013 00:28:19   #
UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA
 
A brief interesting read concerning Google's Gmail program policy. As the old saying goes "Things ain't as the seem" Gmail isn't as secure as they said it would be.


http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/lawsuit-alleging-gmail-ads-are-wiretapping-gets-judges-ok/

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Sep 28, 2013 07:42:04   #
Erv Loc: Medina Ohio
 
Everyone is doing it now. Pretty sad too. But they can profile me all day and I don't really care.:) Take a look at this site. If you type in a word they can use to get an add up, it will show on your post. Try a car for it I like fords.:):)
Erv

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Sep 28, 2013 14:27:31   #
UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA
 
Erv wrote:
Everyone is doing it now. Pretty sad too. But they can profile me all day and I don't really care.:) Take a look at this site. If you type in a word they can use to get an add up, it will show on your post. Try a car for it I like fords.:):)
Erv


Right Erv, they target the individual posters here, but it is a simple applied advertisement, real simle to ignore. In my Gmail account I found 14 pieces, all from the same company but each one referenced a different subject. I had simply sent an email to a Handgun mfg in Germany. We all know how Google makes their money but they are now using the different account holder to drive the volumn of those advertisement.

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Sep 29, 2013 05:33:53   #
steve03 Loc: long Lsland
 
Erv wrote:
Everyone is doing it now. Pretty sad too. But they can profile me all day and I don't really care.:) Take a look at this site. If you type in a word they can use to get an add up, it will show on your post. Try a car for it I like fords.:):)
Erv


The ad that made me laugh on this sight was about installing windows on your house.i wondered why that was on this. Then I remembered someone had a question about computer windows.

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Sep 29, 2013 16:20:20   #
Erv Loc: Medina Ohio
 
And imagine an add for Cabbala's right below your post. :):)
Erv

UP-2-IT wrote:
Right Erv, they target the individual posters here, but it is a simple applied advertisement, real simle to ignore. In my Gmail account I found 14 pieces, all from the same company but each one referenced a different subject. I had simply sent an email to a Handgun mfg in Germany. We all know how Google makes their money but they are now using the different account holder to drive the volumn of those advertisement.

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Sep 29, 2013 22:40:59   #
UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA
 
Erv wrote:
And imagine an add for Cabbala's right below your post. :):)
Erv


Right now showing add for Personal Attorney

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Sep 29, 2013 22:49:07   #
Erv Loc: Medina Ohio
 
I don't know how they do this, but it is pretty cool. I have not looked at any of them tho.:):)
Erv

UP-2-IT wrote:
Right now showing add for Personal Attorney

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Sep 29, 2013 23:05:46   #
UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA
 
Erv wrote:
I don't know how they do this, but it is pretty cool. I have not looked at any of them tho.:):)
Erv


No Erv, don't click on them, made that mistake a long time ago.

Now wants to know if I have a Faulty Stryker hip. LOL

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Sep 29, 2013 23:11:15   #
Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras
 
Erv wrote:
Everyone is doing it now. Pretty sad too. But they can profile me all day and I don't really care.:) Take a look at this site. If you type in a word they can use to get an add up, it will show on your post. Try a car for it I like fords.:):)
Erv


I constantly get ads for Spanish lessons, and especially to meet hot Honduran women. Can't wait 'til my wife sees THAT!!! A lot of them go to my gmail, too.

Besides, I can meet enough hot Honduran women to last a lifetime by taking a fifty-cent taxi ride to downtown. And if my wife found out, that lifetime might be pretty SHORT! :lol: :lol:

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Sep 29, 2013 23:27:12   #
Erv Loc: Medina Ohio
 
I just send them a picture of me.:) For some reason they never write back???
Erv


Lmarc wrote:
I constantly get ads for Spanish lessons, and especially to meet hot Honduran women. Can't wait 'til my wife sees THAT!!! A lot of them go to my gmail, too.

Besides, I can meet enough hot Honduran women to last a lifetime by taking a fifty-cent taxi ride to downtown. And if my wife found out, that lifetime might be pretty SHORT! :lol: :lol:

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Sep 29, 2013 23:28:26   #
Lmarc Loc: Ojojona, Honduras
 
Erv wrote:
I just send them a picture of me.:) For some reason they never write back???
Erv


Now, THAT'S a viable idea!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

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