And with an opt-in. So you only get the yacht ads if you show them your astronomical credit on purpose. But remember, it’s the government whose surveillance level is out of hand. Surveillance for profit is double plus good, citizen. Apple plans to acquire the government by 2032 at the latest. The anti-government types will claim that merely by existing, you’re subject to government surveillance, but you don’t HAVE to deal with businesses if you don’t want to….
have a job, or live in a residence, or have a bank account, or …If you’re filing bankruptcy this week. Instead of ads will they just scoff in derision and have Siri tell you that you can’t afford anything?
Man! Develop new technology and the blood suckers just pile on to find barely legal ways to invade your privacy and annoy the shiat out of you to grab every penny they can get.
I had to buy an ad-cleaner program to sweep out the advertising programs and tracking cookies shoved by the dozens on my computer every time I go on line, not considered spyware, so ignored by my expensive anti-virus program.
Back when the Internet first came out, there were few things to be concerned about, until the admen got involved and checked with the lawyers and started producing all sorts of tracking cookies to gain information to target you with product ads and companies paid spammers to flood your inbox with more ads and malware, then lawyers wrote all sorts of little agreements to plant more garbage on your system in the ‘agreement’ section of ‘free’ trials and programs, to pack your system with search engine changes, unwanted ‘helpful’ programs and even more adware. They knew most people don’t read that lengthy mumble jumble and would miss the permission buried in the mess.
There are no laws against this, so, technically, it’s not illegal.
The newest one is the free trial and sample of something, which seems quite good — like with the new e-cigarette kit — paying shipping and handling that doesn’t seem too outrageous. If you read the agreement real close, buried 3/4 of the way down the jumble of words is an agreement, that if you do not cancel in 7 to 10 days by phone, they can charge you $19.95 per month for ‘refills’.
One decided it could charge you $99.95. They get your credit card number when you verify you’re 18.
I’ve started reading the agreements.
I can’t believe that my adware program has to sweep close to 100 ads out of my system every time I use it, some implanted time and time again and some surprisingly complex. I use the thing once a day, have it set for auto-block and still piles of the damn things get through.
I think we need new laws. The electronic revolution has opened up a Pandora’s Box of new ways to screw you over, legally, and a lot of software companies are patenting new software to do it — but not using it — yet. However, the patents will still be for years to come, if some company want’s to pay enough to use them.