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Originally Posted by LWJ
Having been a user of the internet for a few decades, I just encountered something that was completely novel. I visited Hank's Belts to shop for a belt. Didn't enter any data. Didn't click anything indicated interest. I didn't buy anything. And? They started spamming the heck out of my email.
I have no idea how this was coupled to my search, but clearly Google or some other outfit let them have it?
This seems like very much crossing a line to me.
Are there some settings I need to lock down further? I have never experienced this prior.
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Different but it came to mind reading your post. Apps can fine tune how much of a touch it takes to trigger a result. CNN's app (leave the politics out please) is now under a subscription model and after reading 3 articles, you're prevented from reading anything else for 24 hours.
So in trying to swipe through the headlines just like any other app, I find myself opening articles I have no interest in reading, which quickly locks me out of the stories I am interested in looking at.