From: Doug Franklin
On 2012-03-09 0:07, [email protected] wrote:
And, harmful or not, I just don't like anyone knowing
that much about me without my ~real~ consent. It's
called "right to privacy" a concept that is sadly
close to non-existent today.
That's one of the reasons that I still use cash for all purchases where
its reasonable, don't have any of those store "affinity" accounts, and
such. My effort is a spitball in the middle of a pitched battle, but
there's only so much I can do, personally, that's within the law.
I wonder what it is I'm doing wrong?
I've got a couple of those "affinity" cards. As I recall, they were just
handed to me, and no personal information was gathered, except for
Staples & Kroger.
Q: "Do you have one of our customer cards?"
A: "No"
Clerk scans card & drops it in the bag. I get the discount.
I once had one of those cards from Borders Books that you had to pay $20
for & get a discount plus rewards. Only had it for a year, because I
didn't shop there often enough to earn back the $20, and never renewed it.
I gave Staples my email address for some reason & they send me a
"coupon" almost every day & their sales flyer once a week. I could
"unsubscribe", but that's actually more work than just hitting the
delete key. I'd do it anyway if they hadn't once sent me a "coupon" that
saved me a little money on something I was actually going to buy anyway
and I'm mildly curious to see if it will ever happen again.
I'm still trying to figure out what harm they can do me from knowing I
prefer .7mm pens over .5mm and 1/4" graph paper pads instead of legal pads.
Kroger knows my name & address, and that I'm over age 55. So what?
They'd have the name & address anyway because I still write a check when
I buy groceries & them knowing my age only means I save 10% if I shop
there on Tuesdays.
P. J. Alling was complaining about the pop-up ads on Photo.net. I
clicked around in there for about half an hour and COULD NOT GET a
single pop-up ad. And I *really* tried. Went to main, forums, equipment,
photo of the week, reviews ...
I'll admit that when all the furor about Google happened I read the
instructions for turning off history & followed them. As far as I can
tell, it worked.
Most of anything I really want, I bookmark so I don't have to search for
it again, so I don't know how Google knowing I searched for it one time
really helps them plan an ad campaign to sneak in under my defenses.
If I set Google as my "home page" can they see where I go when I click
one of my bookmarks?
The best use I've found for Google is looking up words "I thought" I
knew the meaning, but now I'm not quite sure"; historic persons and
using the maps just to find out where something is.
I do have a Google+ page, and someday I'm going to Google "Dummy's guide
to Google+".
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