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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

Just going online on ANY site and you are being data mined!

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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

If I were a bagel I would be pumpernickel, good to know.
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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

On 6/4/2014 bikerbabe said:

You mean unlike the data mining done by everyone else. Hello. Go to a website - QVC, Philosophy, Paula's Choice, Amazon - and you start seeing ads for those products all over. Everyone has tracking cookies etc.

Go to the grocery store, make a purchase, scan your store discount card, get coupons based on your purchases.

We're all in someone's database.Wink

No one gives us anything free. We have to buy it.

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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

No use adding to the 'deception'. The least amount is better than all of the possibilities, IMO.

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).
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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

Thank you for posting.
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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

Thanks for letting us know. I keep receiving a weird pop up message lately though I have anti virus. I guess it's harmless as nothing has happened.

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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

Okay, I always sort of figured it was a marketing thing but I don't see how they can get your credit card info etc? None of the quizzes I took ever asked anything like that.

One that was posted (not by Croemer) asked for your email address before it would give you the answer to the quiz and I wouldn't give that.

I don't see how they can get info that is harmful?

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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

On 6/4/2014 scotttie said:

Okay, I always sort of figured it was a marketing thing but I don't see how they can get your credit card info etc? None of the quizzes I took ever asked anything like that.

One that was posted (not by Croemer) asked for your email address before it would give you the answer to the quiz and I wouldn't give that.

I don't see how they can get info that is harmful?

I don't either...none of the Quiz's I posted asked for that info. Now selling your preferences I can see.

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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

Yep. Almost everyone I took asked for an email address which made me close the quiz.

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Re: #### BEWARE "Fun Quizzes" are Data Mining and Collecting, Personal Information ####

On 6/4/2014 scotttie said:

Okay, I always sort of figured it was a marketing thing but I don't see how they can get your credit card info etc? None of the quizzes I took ever asked anything like that.

One that was posted (not by Croemer) asked for your email address before it would give you the answer to the quiz and I wouldn't give that.

I don't see how they can get info that is harmful?

I was wondering the same thing scottie.

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