this is ridiculous. I've been trying to cancel my state health insurance (like Medicaid but not really) for the past few weeks since I have a new job with employee insurance. The email I use for this old insurance is completely different from the email I use for Firefox/Facebook/my bank/etc. I don't even have my phone # linked to my Firefox account. And I've also been in the process of "de-google"ing my internet usage and have been switching my email/cloud storage/account info out of anything linked to Google or Dropbox or any other service known for insane tracking and third-party selling and such. So anyway a few days ago I finally got around to making it so my old insurance cancels at the end of this month.
THEN this morning I'm listening to some random future funk radio on zeno.fm while at my office desk. I don't even have an account there, it's a random link to a 24/7 radio streaming service that was shared by a future funk youtube channel I follow. So I have NO connection to it. (even my youtube email is different from my old health insurance email(they are still both gmails tho)). And then!! Because I'm using the free service for this radio!! I get some audio-only ads before the actual stream starts playing! AND ONE OF THE ADS WAS FOR THE MEDICAL INSURANCE SERVICE I JUST CANCELED, IN SPANISH.
My real name is ULTRA hispanic. Like 'mispronounced by white people constantly' hispanic. So whenever I get an ad in spanish I'm like *suspicious*, bc it is more than likely targeted. And at the end of the ad I hear *name of state insurance dept* and i was like Bro. how the fuck did this get through. what the HELL connection is there for this targeted ad to have gotten to me through this random radio link. the only thing I can think of is that I've been visiting the state dept website a lot recently and I haven't cleared my cache in a while. So maybe the personal info was taken that way?? idk. Also I forgot to install my VPN client on my work computer. oops.
this is so fucking stupid tho. goddamn ads and personal info selling and tracking ruining everything and putting invisible eyeballs on you constantly from companies that want to sell the fact that you like a certain music genre or use state insurance. what the fuck. fuck you zuckerburg. bitch. YOU'RE the main guy that started all this. and FUCK YOU steve jobs. and FUCK YOU Google. And Blackrock. And every ad agency ever. die.
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SkyNexus
Wow! That's tough. Sorry to hear that. The only thing that I have experienced, that is similar to this was when I searched for something related to Power Rangers and half an hour later I was bombarded by ads for coloring books with, you guessed it Power Rangers...
Jesus half an hour?? These assholes are fast. There was also an instance where I posted a picture of some cowboy boots I wanted to my facebook just saying "I want these boots so bad". I didn't even name the company or the type of boots. Then my mom commented saying she'll keep them in mind for my upcoming birthday (again not typing out the actual boot company name), and a day later she got ads on her feed for that same boot company. what the fuck.
by KINGOFTEETH; ; Report
Oh yeah. And god forbid you forget your Facebook password. It took me 2 hours, nerves of steel and a lot of patience to get my account back. It wanted me to give them a photo with my Identity Card to "verify" that I am who I said I was. Yeah, like that was ever gonna happen. Luckily I still had my old IPhone with my account on.
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