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Word Spreads Fast

PickyPicky3 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:41:31 GMT

Last weekend I spent a few hours online checking out Labor Day weekend mattress sales. I didn't buy anything.

This week I received 13 mattress ad postcards in the mail from both manufacturers and retail stores, including some I never looked at.

I did nothing but browse online: no forms filled in, nothing put into a shopping cart.

Yikes!

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millieshops — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:45:11 GMT

@PickyPicky3 We are definitely being followed.

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SloopJohnB — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:47:16 GMT

As they say, Big Brother is watching. 🛏

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KingstonsMom — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:48:33 GMT

@PickyPicky3

That's because the websites you visited used 'cookies', so they could track you, getting your email address, etc.

Download AdBlock+, it's free and can block ads, cookies, etc.

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PickyPicky3 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 23:03:37 GMT

Cookies are nothing new. How did those websites go from cookies to my full name and address that fast?

****And print and snailmail those postcards. Is there some new USPS service where ads can be printed directly by the USPS so a business doesn't have to mail them?

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Spurt — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:21:27 GMT

Its like the commercial for the "duckduckgo" browser.......and how Google is watching and following whatever you do.....

Like the song they play during the commercial first introduced by the singer, "Sting"......

I'll be watching you
Every move you make
Every step you take
I'll be watching you

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fthunt — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:58:50 GMT

@Spurt Love that spot - hear the music ands know it's coming on.

Have you downloaded DUCK yet?

I'm so tempted ...and soon

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KingstonsMom — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:27 GMT

@fthunt

I use a similar service, free, called 'Startpage' dot com. Love it, it's all I use to do all searches!

Read about it on their site, it has a lot of built in securities.

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Trailrun23 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:07:22 GMT

I know if I put something in my cart at Amazon, I will be bombarded with ads for the same or similar item via email, texts, snail,ail. Even pop-up ads. Maddening.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:09:41 GMT

@PickyPicky3 How could online retailers get your mailing address? I do tons of online searches for various things including mattresses and I've never gotten a related mailed advertisement.

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PickyPicky3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:22:14 GMT

@Kachina624 That's the question. This is the first time this has happened -- and so fast! There's got to be some new powerful software out there. Especially if I got postal mail from sites I never accessed.

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PickyPicky3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:32:42 GMT

This is 100% fictional:

At the 2020 annual meeting of the Mattress Manufacturers and Retailers Association (virtual of course), the Cooperative Software Company demonstrated a new system which would send out reinforcing postcards to anyone who looked at mattresses online.

If any website contained both e-mail and postal addresses (like Walmart), that info would be shared by all. Better to motivate a consumer to buy a mattress from a MMRA member than not at all.

The Cooperative Software Company created multiple levels of participation at varying costs.

The new system was launched for the busy 2022 Labor Day sales.

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JoyFilled Warrior — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:08:24 GMT

< Unfortunate cause, Deleted by User >

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jackthebear — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:51:35 GMT

DDG

i use it and does stop tracking

not everything but you won't get ads/popups etc

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IMW — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:28:32 GMT

Scary

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Spurt — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:59:27 GMT

@fthunt wrote:
@Spurt Love that spot - hear the music ands know it's coming on.
Have you downloaded DUCK yet?

I'm so tempted ...and soon

@fthunt

Nope I havent yet but will soon...

Re: Word Spreads Fast

Spurt — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:45:30 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
Last weekend I spent a few hours online checking out Labor Day weekend mattress sales. I didn't buy anything.

This week I received 13 mattress ad postcards in the mail from both manufacturers and retail stores, including some I never looked at.

I did nothing but browse online: no forms filled in, nothing put into a shopping cart.

Yikes!

@PickyPicky3

As far as receiving ads and info in your snail mail I think it has to do with local stores/manufactures in your area usually offering mattress sales around Labor Day.......There's been tons of local TV ads in our area too....

Re: Word Spreads Fast

hckynutjohn — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:10:47 GMT

Anyone that thinks there is a thing called privacy? Got some news for ya's!

hckynut 🇺🇸

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Icegoddess — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:22:32 GMT

And HSN has a mattress TSV today. Bwahahahaha!

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PickyPicky3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:55:12 GMT

@Spurt I would love for this to be nothing more than a zip code mailing, but there were so many postcards. I will ask my neighbors and my mailman (if I see him) if others got mattress postcards last week.