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<blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 981533" data-attributes="member: 93179"><p>[USER=211017]@RYU[/USER]: It's not a psychic but nosey internet creepy crawlies that follow you from site to site. It's usually quite easy to see where they get their information about your potentially relevant interests if you think about the sites you've been visiting recently. I had a spate of diabetic and weight loss "cures" spam when I was first diagnosed and doing a bit of research via the web, so not quite as depressing as yours! But I learned long before I was diabetic to identify spam emails by their subject matter and they just get deleted sight unseen. It's also the fashion now, if a site uses Google ads, to custom design those ads to your known interests as you browse. The web's rapidly become less of an "information highway" and more of a "spammers/advertisers paradise". (That's <strong>my</strong> rant over for today...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />)</p><p></p><p>[USER=85197]@zand[/USER] I believe most spam phone callers withhold their numbers, so my husband refuses now to answer any calls that do this. We sometimes miss a few genuine calls, but if it's important then they have the option to leave a message.</p><p></p><p>Ranting Robbity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robbity, post: 981533, member: 93179"] [USER=211017]@RYU[/USER]: It's not a psychic but nosey internet creepy crawlies that follow you from site to site. It's usually quite easy to see where they get their information about your potentially relevant interests if you think about the sites you've been visiting recently. I had a spate of diabetic and weight loss "cures" spam when I was first diagnosed and doing a bit of research via the web, so not quite as depressing as yours! But I learned long before I was diabetic to identify spam emails by their subject matter and they just get deleted sight unseen. It's also the fashion now, if a site uses Google ads, to custom design those ads to your known interests as you browse. The web's rapidly become less of an "information highway" and more of a "spammers/advertisers paradise". (That's [B]my[/B] rant over for today...:D) [USER=85197]@zand[/USER] I believe most spam phone callers withhold their numbers, so my husband refuses now to answer any calls that do this. We sometimes miss a few genuine calls, but if it's important then they have the option to leave a message. Ranting Robbity [/QUOTE]
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