poison dwarf Registered User This is unquestionably where our daily lives are heading. - Hello! Gordon's pizza? - No sir this is Google's pizza. - Sorry, I must have dialed a wrong number? - No sir, Google bought out Gordon's Pizza a short while ago. - OK. Take my order please. - OK sir, would you like your usual?" - The usual? You know me? - According to our caller-ID database, your last 12 orders were for pizza with cheese and sausage toppings, thick crust and crisp. - OK! That's it... - May I suggest this time you add ricotta, arugula with dry tomato toppings? - What? I hate vegetables - Your cholesterol is not good, sir." - How do you know that? - We cross-matched your phone number with your name and your online medical portal. We have the result of your blood tests for the past 7 years. - Okay, but I do not want those toppings, I already take medicine ... - Excuse me, but you have not taken your medicine regularly. We can see from our database, 4 months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 cholesterol tablets at CVS. - I bought more from another pharmacy. - Such a transaction is not showing in your credit card account. - I paid in cash. - But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your recent bank statement. - I have another source of cash. - That is not showing as per your latest tax return unless you obtained it from an undeclared income source. WHAT THE..... -"I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the intention of helping you. - Enough! I'm sick of Google, Facebook,Twitter, WhatsApp. I'm going to an Island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone service and no one to spy on me. - "I understand sir but you'll need to renew your passport first as it expired 6 weeks ago!
That's funny. Google does do quite a bit to have everything all connected. When I got my new phone, for some reason, which I can't remember now, I had to create a gmail account. Lol. I hated that. It immediately put my information on google plus or whatever. Not cool. I had to turn off several features in order to keep my name off of google. Ugh.
Agree soul, I have 1 email, and on my tablet is a list of my phone numbers, on my computer pictures I take with my phone or tablet are backed up to my computer.. If I Google something, say on line shopping, the pop up adverts are mostly the thing I was looking at! The mind boggles!
Yeah I was amazed that facebook knew what I wanted to buy. Then my miss advise me that it's because of my history and internet cookies. Lol. But the one thing I was amazed with and still am is my phone knows exactly when I'm about to drive and it knows where I am going to and gives me traffic reporting.. How does it know! Like I will walk to my truck and my phone vibrates. Approx 9mins to such and such. How the fuck did you know I was about to drive and how the fuck do you know where I'm going!
I was away camping this week and had a notice come through on my phone (from google) saying i had to put my bins out that day and it would take me 51 mins to get home!
Sounds about right. Sometimes when I say outloud that I need to look something up Google will guess exactly what I want to look up after I type in only one letter. And sometimes if I say "oh, let me check facebook to see when that event is" it will be at the very top of my feed and I dont have to go look for it Creepy
while dns CAN be cross checked of course, clearing cookies and using an ad blocker is usually sufficient. government agencies may be another matter, but they usually don't try to sell you extra toppings. and pizza anyway. does anyone still seriously eat that stuff?
If That Happened To Me......I'd Throw The Phone In The Bin And Get On With Living A Normal Everyday Life.... Cheers Glen.
is there any place on this planet where those things still exist? not that i believe any such thing as normal ever did. but i mean life, without someone else's idea of how it 'should' be lived, planting their fat fingers in the middle of it?
As much as I hate to admit it, I've become more reliant on this sort of technology, like reminding me to put the bins out (as they seem to change the day of the week every few months!).
