Popular Post Bazle Posted June 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2021 The future ...... Ordering a Pizza CALLER: Is this Pizza Hut? GOOGLE: No sir, it's Google Pizza. CALLER: I must have dialed a wrong number, sorry. GOOGLE: No sir, Google bought Pizza Hut last month. CALLER: OK. I would like to order a pizza. GOOGLE: Do you want your usual, sir? CALLER: My usual? You know me? GOOGLE: According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust. CALLER: Super! That’s what I’ll have. GOOGLE: May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten-free thin crust? CALLER: What? I don’t want a vegetarian pizza! GOOGLE: Your cholesterol is not good, sir. CALLER: How the hell do you know that? GOOGLE: Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years. CALLER: Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetarian pizza! I already take medication for my cholesterol. GOOGLE: Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you purchased only a box of 30 cholesterol tablets once at Lloyds Pharmacy, 4 months ago. CALLER: I bought more from another Pharmacy. GOOGLE: That doesn’t show on your credit card statement. CALLER: I paid in cash. GOOGLE: But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement. CALLER: I have other sources of cash. GOOGLE: That doesn’t show on your latest tax returns, unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law! CALLER: WHAT THE HELL! GOOGLE: I'm sorry sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you. CALLER: Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others. I'm going to an island without the internet, TV, where there is no phone service and no one to watch me or spy on me. GOOGLE: I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6 weeks ago... Welcome to the future 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 You mean "Welcome to the present but certain privacy laws and company policies won't allow such information to be revealed to the Customer" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfingboy Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Sad but becoming reality 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maipenrai Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 Like most people, I get annoyed when I am bombarded by advertisements for something I may have looked at online recently, but I got a bit of a shock the other day when two people I have met socially recently and exchanged phone numbers with appeared on my Facebook in the "People You May Know" listing - yet more evidence of just how interconnected all modern digital info really is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horizondave Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 I recently closed 2 accounts with Domestic and General (Insurance). I did this on a phone call (using my Samsun A10) to their free 0800 number. On going on to my Lenovo laptop a while later and going on Facebook I was staring straight at an advert for Domestic and General offering 20% discount to insure any appliances. Never seen that ad before and it is too much of a coincidence not to believe that D and G and Facebook must have used some of my data during that phone call earlier to generate that ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Horizondave said: I recently closed 2 accounts with Domestic and General (Insurance). I did this on a phone call (using my Samsun A10) to their free 0800 number. On going on to my Lenovo laptop a while later and going on Facebook I was staring straight at an advert for Domestic and General offering 20% discount to insure any appliances. Never seen that ad before and it is too much of a coincidence not to believe that D and G and Facebook must have used some of my data during that phone call earlier to generate that ad. This is a good documentary about how our privacy is basically zero online and how we are targeted by advertising etc. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fygjam Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 5 hours ago, Horizondave said: I recently closed 2 accounts with Domestic and General (Insurance). I did this on a phone call (using my Samsun A10) to their free 0800 number. On going on to my Lenovo laptop a while later and going on Facebook I was staring straight at an advert for Domestic and General offering 20% discount to insure any appliances. Never seen that ad before and it is too much of a coincidence not to believe that D and G and Facebook must have used some of my data during that phone call earlier to generate that ad. Or did you just use your laptop to browse the D&G website to get the contact information or account closure procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappo Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 google apple facebook et all have been harvesting our data for a very long time. they know who what where why and when 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horizondave Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 6 hours ago, fygjam said: Or did you just use your laptop to browse the D&G website to get the contact information or account closure procedure. I had their Freephone number in my mobile for the last 18 months. I never looked up D and G in my laptop or phone. I had the plans printed off in my filing cabinet and just called them and referred to my plan number although my name and phone number/address gave them my details anyway. They did try to resell the plan over the phone as a good deal with great additions but I was adamant that I was cancelling. I didn't do anything digitally on their website or online before the call at all so I was rather shocked to see the ad. Something occurred, something generated the ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fygjam Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 37 minutes ago, Horizondave said: I had their Freephone number in my mobile for the last 18 months. I never looked up D and G in my laptop or phone. I had the plans printed off in my filing cabinet and just called them and referred to my plan number although my name and phone number/address gave them my details anyway. They did try to resell the plan over the phone as a good deal with great additions but I was adamant that I was cancelling. I didn't do anything digitally on their website or online before the call at all so I was rather shocked to see the ad. Something occurred, something generated the ad. I forgot the most obvious one. Same email address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitespider Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Horizondave said: I had their Freephone number in my mobile for the last 18 months. I never looked up D and G in my laptop or phone. I had the plans printed off in my filing cabinet and just called them and referred to my plan number although my name and phone number/address gave them my details anyway. They did try to resell the plan over the phone as a good deal with great additions but I was adamant that I was cancelling. I didn't do anything digitally on their website or online before the call at all so I was rather shocked to see the ad. Something occurred, something generated the ad. It did. D&G logged your call in their database, which is no doubt accessible to the others, so you got flagged as someone (probably) renewing/enquiring about insurance. Its all very sneaky but there’s logic behind the madness however distasteful it seems. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horizondave Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 12 hours ago, fygjam said: I forgot the most obvious one. Same email address? It certainly is something that is generating the obvious crossover of data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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