Is this totally creepy or what?

[bif]

Yesterday I placed and order from Blick that included a tube of Golden alizarin crimson paint. About 10 minutes later I got an email from Michael's with a special offer on Golden alizarin crimson paint. Talk about an invasion of privacy!

[Nay]

1. Yes, it is. It shows how thoroughly intertwined all this stuff is. And we think we have privacy?

NOPE. We don't.

[Kind of Blue]

2. For sure. A few weeks ago, my husband searched for belts.

On his way to a store, he stopped for gas and the pump media monitor immediately started belt advertisements.
No more weather reports on those things. They're not even subtle or sneaky about it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Figure out a way to make fun of them about it.

Meme, boycott, some funny name, whatever

They don’t like it when ya make fun of them.

[Kind of Blue]

4. Well, we did tell the company their blatant invasion caused us not to

patronize them. Hopefully they don't like that either.

[bif]

6. Nw that's creepy!

Big Brother is indeed watching us.

[Kind of Blue]

8. We're big fans of late visionary author Philip K. Dick who predicted this technology

we thought would happen by the 2050s when we'd probably be long dead, but unfortunately is here. Besides everything else happening, the belt incident as with yours are unsettling - I mean how do you fight the intrusion when facial recognition isn't necessary but just Google and a bank card. We haven't seen any more targeted ads after complaining and hope there's maybe some sort of do not target list when we slip and default to Google.

But then again for art supplies, I go directly to the stores. For general shopping, we wuse DuckDuckgo that doesn't track or store personal history https://duckduckgo.com/

Minority Report's Future Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore

[Peregrine Took]

5. Anyway we can turn off this invasive shadowing? n/t

[TeamPooka]

7. if you want privacy, avoid the internet.