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Big Brother is always watching....  

secret_lade 49F
14388 posts
12/6/2020 3:12 pm
Big Brother is always watching....


The week long Black Friday deals were good me this year!

One of the deals I managed scoop up was a year of Hulu for only $1.99 a month.... Amazeballs!

The catch??

It's standard membership, which means, it comes along with commercials here and there. I think I can manage stomach a commercial or two if it's going to save me $0. I've been paying full price up until now and, I'm the only one who watches it.

So, there I was, streaming something on Hulu and gathering up the Spawn's laundry wash a load when a folded up piece of paper falls out of the pile.

It looks like a note!

Being the nosey creature that I am, I immediately unfolded it see what it had say...

Was it a passed in class note from a friend who was as bored as she??

Was it a note from a with a crush??

Nope.

It was Spanish homework.

I laughed myself when I saw it and decided I was going translate what her response the question was.

I sat on the couch and google translated..

"My name is [Spawn]. My favorite class is art. When I grow up I want be rich."

Now, I bet you're wondering....

Just what in the hell does all this rambling have do with Big Brother??

Well, here ya go!

Imagine my surprise when that commercial break finally came around, and it was a Walmart commercial in Spanish! That commercial immediately followed by a Kohl's commercial...

Also in Spanish!

I sound a little like the Hippie when he would spew his crazy conspiracy theory shit.... but.... It's kind of scary that the tracking cookies on my pone could be linked my Amazon Firestick that's plugged into my TV.

Big Brother IS always watching.

secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/7/2020 3:11 pm

    Quoting tickles4us:
    It started with the private corporations and them using the info to send you the adds that could be used to sell you stuff and that advertisers would pay for. But you can bet that uncle Sam is and has been tapping into that info also. From websites you visit and adds to click on to the filtering of emails to search for key words.
Back in the day I used to blog on Blogger... And one of the things they did was allow you the option to put ads on your blog to potentially earn money from them. Anyone that clicked into one of the ads
earned you money. Not sure how much, I never participated, but the owner of the blog could see who clicked into what... etc.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/7/2020 3:06 pm

    Quoting citizen4722:
    I play chess online it's free if you can live with the ads (it never used to have ads). The ads will disappear if I go 'Premium' (of course)
    Thankfully they are silent...at least for now! I'm getting more e-bay pop-ups appearing, based on what I was browsing!
Facebook is getting pretty bad with their ads.... Drives me nuts. Either they want me to add people they think I may know or they want to sell me stuff from Wish.com.


tickles4us 62M
7262 posts
12/7/2020 9:11 am

It started with the private corporations and them using the info to send you the adds that could be used to sell you stuff and that advertisers would pay for. But you can bet that uncle Sam is and has been tapping into that info also. From websites you visit and adds to click on to the filtering of emails to search for key words.

Vive La Difference


citizen4722 66M  
74582 posts
12/7/2020 9:06 am

I play chess online it's free if you can live with the ads (it never used to have ads). The ads will disappear if I go 'Premium' (of course)
Thankfully they are silent...at least for now! I'm getting more e-bay pop-ups appearing, based on what I was browsing!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/7/2020 3:27 am

    Quoting MrWrong4RghtNow:
    I got an offer from Hulu to rejoin for .99 per month for three months and then automatically get it for regular price. Naturally this was for the one with ads. I passed simply because I hate even 12 second ads. Picky bastard that I am
The ads don't bother me as much... They actually give me opportunity to do stuff without having to pause. What usually happens is, I pause things and it takes to long to get back to what I'm watching and it times out, eventually shutting off.

Just getting up to get a glass of water.... There's only a couple of dishes, I'm going to wash them real quick.... What's that on the floor by the garbage?? I might as well take it out since I'm wiping down God knows what from the can... Oh good, the mail is here! I got my amazon package!! Let's open it up... This doesn't look like the wireless charger I ordered for the Spawn for Christmas... I'm going to look it up real quick and make sure... Oh, I've got an email from the school, great.... I'll just take a look at the COVID school link real quick to see where the latest infections are....

Oh, shit, I was watching a movie!


MrWrong4RghtNow 57M
2439 posts
12/6/2020 11:44 pm

I got an offer from Hulu to rejoin for .99 per month for three months and then automatically get it for regular price. Naturally this was for the one with ads. I passed simply because I hate even 12 second ads. Picky bastard that I am

My name is MrWrong and I approved this comment


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 11:17 pm

    Quoting Paulxx001:
    Ya got a good deal on Hulu. Anything worthy on that service? 🤔
    Big Brother gave up on me ages ago. I'm beyond HIS scrutiny. ❗❗😎
    I think... 😊
Hulu has my favorite tv shows on it.... when I worked nights I got used to streaming them to catch up. Now it's my preference. I can pause and rewind!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 11:12 pm

    Quoting  :

Dont think I haven't thought that....


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 11:08 pm

    Quoting hogknot:
    It's like a song by Rockwell, Somebody's Watching Me
I actually really like that song.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 11:06 pm

    Quoting scorp6926:
    me love cookies, to old to give a shit who's watching
Ok cookie monster.... lol. I worry a little about what they do with my harvested info.


scorp6926 62M
85 posts
12/6/2020 8:52 pm

me love cookies, to old to give a shit who's watching


hogknot 57M
1059 posts
12/6/2020 8:35 pm

It's like a song by Rockwell, Somebody's Watching Me


Orgasmaphone 44M

12/6/2020 6:51 pm

sounds hot!!!!! cant wait until we chat


Paulxx001 67M
22642 posts
12/6/2020 6:34 pm

Ya got a good deal on Hulu. Anything worthy on that service? 🤔
Big Brother gave up on me ages ago. I'm beyond HIS scrutiny. ❗❗😎
I think... 😊


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 5:29 pm

me gustas mucho


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 5:22 pm

    Quoting KX450F2016:
    Well.... did you use your phone to sign up for Hulu??
Actually, I used my laptop to sign up!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 5:17 pm

    Quoting 60satisfaction:
    You don't know the half of it. everything you do on the internet is tracked and recorded, even the message you are now reading.
    Big Brother records everything.
    Get a VPN (virtual private network)
I'll have to look into that...


KX450F2016 55M
193 posts
12/6/2020 4:47 pm

Well.... did you use your phone to sign up for Hulu??


mc_justmc 63M

12/6/2020 4:46 pm

te gusta la mia ? happym;


60satisfaction 66M

12/6/2020 4:03 pm

You don't know the half of it. everything you do on the internet is tracked and recorded, even the message you are now reading.
Big Brother records everything.
Get a VPN (virtual private network)


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
12/6/2020 4:00 pm

    Quoting XHamburgDave:
    mi Amiga lol just kidding! Yep you got to beware, all these new devices, you never know who is listening
My Best Friend from 7th grade is a smart gal.... She writes computer code and does website design for urban housing developments. She told me years ago about tracking cookies and what the real purpose of them is. They may open your websites that you frequent faster, but their intended purpose is to track what you're viewing and when you go to a website that has 3rd party advertising, they tell the advertising what to show you.


XHamburgDave 80M
10466 posts
12/6/2020 3:35 pm

mi Amiga lol just kidding! Yep you got to beware, all these new devices, you never know who is listening

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