This sort of behavior is getting scary bad. My wife and I were talking about a ring that she had just had repaired. Actually speaking to each other, no email, ims, etc. I woke my laptop to read the news and all of the ads on google were for rings! I think we are being monitored on a great level. After seeing what you just went through Tom and the efforts you've gone to in order to become anonymous. I fear that that is not possible unless we completely unplug. Brian On 7/31/20 5:51 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
I think this is not coincidence and should probably make everyone on nmglug@lists.nmglug.org angry.
Today through my Comcast email account I received a couple emails re Kingston DTL+ USB via the nmglug listserv. That's fine. I LIKE email from nmglug.
What I definitely DON'T like is getting this associated email as a consequence:
From: news@e.benidata.com (arrived 3:02 pm today)
Subject: ⚡See Today's Deal of the Day -- Act Fast! $4.95 Kingston 16GB Micro SD Class 10
The operative common term being 'Kingston'. Out of the blue. Three in one day. Out a total of six emails for the day.
I have never had any known relationship with benidata.com and I would certainly have deliberately and promptly declined to receive any sales or marketing information from them if I did. And of course I did promptly unsubscribe for further emails from them though I had never knowingly subscribed in the first place.
I use only DuckDuckGo for searching. I have Firefox locked down with privacy Addons every which way from Sunday. DoH network setting, strict tracking protection settings, NoScript, Ublock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, Facebook Container--I don't even use Facebook, it's there just in case I change my mind!
I virtually never see or hear any adds that aren't embedded directly in streaming podcast or YouTube content (can't figure out how to get rid of that except not to stream.)
Almost all of my few online purchases come through eBay and Amazon whom I haven't dealt with for more than a month. No storage media for more than a year. Almost all my emails are personal or related to specific non-commercially oriented subject matter from people or groups who are not commercial entities.
A couple of years ago when I got rid of our Comcast wifi-cable-modem-router I went through all the contractual crap and opted out everything related to marketing that we still might be exposed to that I could find. Set up the new purchased wifi-cable-modem-router for Cloudflare DNS.
Yet some months ago when I searched around for products related to solar panels, shortly thereafter Xfinity sends me email adds trying to sell me on their own branded rooftop PV electric scam.
A couple weeks ago I was shopping for insurance. First time in years. Suddenly Xfinity emails me and wants to sell me their own branded BS home, pipes and appliance insurance because of the extra strain Covid is placing on them. Never had other adds for insurance other than the most rare and minimal for services from carriers we already had relationships with.
Now I have this unsolicited add for Kingston storage devices.
All too isolated as a class of events and too closely related in subject matter and time to be purely random and unconnected.
I think Comcast/Xfinity or some data-broker entity closely associated with them is mining my email account pretty directly.
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