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[PickyPicky3]

@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.

[PickyPicky3]

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.

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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[jackthebear]

DDG

i use it and does stop tracking

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

[IMW]

Scary

[Spurt]

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@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

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@fthunt 

Nope I havent yet but will soon...

[Spurt]

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@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! 

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@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....

[hckynutjohn]

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

hckynut  🇺🇸

[Icegoddess]

And HSN has a mattress TSV today.  Bwahahahaha!

[PickyPicky3]

@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.