Wow! Just got this from ebay… Every click I have ever made on ebay has been cached as with every other thing ever done on the net. Kind of a creepy reminder! My other account goes back to 1996 when you were encouraged to bid on your own items, the site often went down just as your item was closing and only about half the sellers could figure out how to load a picture of their item.
Fun firsts, big wins, and memories made together.
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You registered as westcoastclassiccougar on 7-19-2003!
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First purchase
You scored 67/68 Cougar XR7 Headlight Wiring Harness on 7-28-2003.
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First sale
You cashed out with 1967 Mercury Cougar quarter panel emblems; NICE used! on 7-3-2005.
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First offer
Way to negotiate on 68 69 70 71 Torino Cougar Mustang Power Window Switches on 12-23-2006.
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You kept your eye on 1967 MERCURY COUGAR FLOOR CONSOLE PARTS LOT on 12-18-2007.
Yea that is really creepy. I think that is one of the reasons the internet has made people as paranoid as we are. Also this stuff is stored on your hard drive. Once my work computer crashed and the technician had to clear out the cashe and I saw a brief clips of every car I had looked at on e-bay!
and your details from any site like face book etc are used to sell profiled lists to telly marketers who then use that info to send you and your contacts advertisements for shit you didn’t ask for, don’t need and don’t want…
Your every move is recorded by pretty much every “free service “ site you visits.
Its getting a bit scary, and i’m getting really paranoid !!
I watched this documentary on this particular thing on how there making money on every move you make on the internet. Its scary when you browse lets say home depot for oh like a air purifier and then later on you go on facebook and there it is different air purifiers with different companies and prices. That freaks me out to see that and makes me just stop going on face book all together and any other social media like Instagram or twitter .
I miss those early days when sellers would spell Cougar incorrectly and their listing wouldn’t get much traffic. Got some great parts using COOGER, Couger, Cogger. Then spell check arrived.
Heh. I worked computer/cyber crimes from the late 90’s to the early 2000’s and the one thing that was true then and is still true today is that if you don’t have something to hide, it really does not matter. One of my fellow detectives once came to me very nervous because he had been doing internet searches and came across something illicit. He framed the question as, “Say I was searching for boats, but all of the sudden I was getting pictures of stolen boats!?!”. It didn’t take a seasoned detective to know what ‘boats’ was a euphemism for, nor what the content of the ‘stolen boats’ he had received were. I was frank at the time, “If you were not searching for something that was questionable and potentially contraband in the first place, you would not be in this situation to begin with. If the feds show up on your doorstep, pray the court is merciful”. Too many people see the Internet as a private space which is both wrong from reality, and also from a legal standpoint. Treat your time here just like you are out on the street in front of your house, or on the courthouse steps in public, and you will never need to worry. Anyone with basic skills can find me, so I behave accordingly. Also, if they do choose to find me, they’d best know I am a vet, retired cop, and my sons who live with me may well be more of a frightening deterrent than me, and they both pale by comparison to my wife, who is the stuff of legendary terror.
I am not really “special” in IT/internet knowledge but people (say on marketplace) get freaked out when I don’t need them to give me their address or phone number - heck I could tell them how much they paid for their house and in what year; and where they lived before! Again it is a very exposed world we live in
….and the internet isn’t the only frightening thing. How about Alexa picking up private conversation and triggering product mapping from it (predictive analytics). Or the fact that they can find you with your cellphone or smartwatch, and in some cases even pick-up conversations through your phone even when you aren’t using it. Heck, how about they can track you through your dogs/cats microchip. Yeah, were secure…
