On the web, I opened a link on the swagger post and now I see Amazon is sending me post on swaggers! LOL

wifes washing machine died and we bought a new one. grand daughter needed a new dresser so same thing. we searched both on line but just bought them local. I was up late last night putting the dresser together and got the washer hooked up Friday. I bet you don't need more than one guess to know what ads I saw when I checked the news this morning

We wanted to be able to surf the Web and get the best price, but it sure is a downside to it. It's getting to be like dealing with a used car salesman every time you make a Google search.

You are being tracked one hundred percent and the magnitude increases everyday

i made the mistake of googlin what it says about me and was shocked.and i've never had a cell phone or facebook or any of that,just tman and minkguy.

I was looking at something on the Northern Tool site one night at home on my personal laptop. The next day at work I pulled up the weather forecast on my work computer and there was an ad for that same product. They know everything.

It's crazy on how much we are tracked especially with our smartphones. I turn off most of the features to somewhat help. I don't keep location, bluetooth nfc,sync etc... on unless I absolutely need to. If you have location on even your photos will show that info.

If you have any sort of smartphone which is every one im aware of. The mic is always listening. I dont know if its the phone or just the apps you put on it like facebook and such. Me and the wife can talk about wanting or needing something and she can get on her phone or laptop and it will show her ads for whatever we were just talking about. If i am searching around for web for something like a pressure washer my wife will get ads on her phone. Its told on me a few times trying to sneak around and buy a new toy and the wife will ask why was i looking for whatever it was. If it has a mic in it...phone, computer, tv. It is always listening and you cant turn it off if you intend on using certain things on those devices. They say its for advertising purposes, to bring you more effective ads. But im sure there is a server room somewhere in this country that is recording and storing everything you say, or at least anything of importance. The thing is...we bought our own equipment for big brother to spy on ourselves. Im sure its technically legal too if you read the 40 page long user agreements that come with using certain products because we all check "yes i understand".

Our own personal wiretaps that we carry around everywhere nearly at all times in our pockets. The vast majority dont care or dont believe it. One day soon its gonna come back to bite us all on our rears. Just as soon as they disarm us. Its funny how it all comes back around to taking our guns, and why they never quit or leave it alone.

Mn Les's lawn is the last safe place.

Also most of the features like gps tracking and location and that stuff on your phone can never actually be turned off until you remove the battery. Thats why most all new phone you cant remove the battery on them. Turning the phone off doesnt do it.

The disturbing part is when you talk about something and then start seeing ads for it 😳

It's been said that they have people watching the people that are watching me. In today's tech world I don't take anything for granted or put anything out there on my phone or computer that I don't want someone else to see. I have those adds popping up on my emails for things I have been searching online.

I have had a post on here that when I searched the web for other info it came up online and the post was a day old now that was fast.

They are definitely tracking everything you do online. They are wasting their time watching me though lol I’m boring as heck.

And dont forget about Alexa! ...she hears everything!!

It's funny if I type in USPO to set up postage it takes me to non-USPO site and that's not the only time it will do that, you type in exactly what your looking for and get what they give you.

If you have a smart phone you are tracked 24/7, location, web searches, web sites.

Besides your web searches, there are people who make a living by just sending out spam to get confirmed addresses. If you click on the spam eMail you confirm your address and they can sell confirmed addresses.

I would never use a smart phone for any banking, that's just me. I use one hard drive and one operating system for each bank, credit card, trading platform, insurance company, etc. on a computer. It may seem like a lot of bother, but its really not. The biggest aggravation is keeping all the browsers updated, which I only do manually. If I never ever put any thing else on there but that particular thing, say bank and there is no other cookies from anyone else allowed then if any thing is coming in I know its from that bank.

As far as being tracked sometimes its easier just to put my need in and let the trackers find it for me. Ebay is great for putting it in one time and get adds and emails for days.

If you want to be almost invisible then Tails might be for you. Its not Tor but uses it some. If you are thinking of illegal activity then best forget it. Nothing goes any where with out leaving tracks.

If your using a computer that is accessed by others then you could use a live system on a flash drive which operates off your ram. When you take out the flash drive and kill the electric to the ram then there is nothing left on the computer for the next guy to see (library, office, etc.)

Might just as well accept the fact if you are on social media, there are no secrets including identities. Its just a matter of how hard they want to attach the info. to you.