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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Yes I know spammer use software to auto fill names for email addresses. But the funny thing is I also have hotmail/outlook accounts and do not get any spam there at all. Actually had several since where I worked before retiring used outlook for their e-mail addresses. Plus of course when you set up win 8 and winX you can also set up sign in accounts for your pc. I normally use yahoo as a spam filter when I sign up for games and contests etc. Used to be when using the old/early Outlook Express e-mail software the spam was actually downloaded to your pc. Then discovered yahoo had free e-mail and started using that as spam filter. Could see the spam and delete it without downloading anything. As a weird side note before spam became a big problem Compuserve originally used numbers as your sign in/email address. You signed up and they assigned a string of numbers with a random comma in the middle. Spammers discovered this and Cserve had to change their email customer billing procedures when their e-mail servers got overloaded with spam. This was way back in the day when Cserve was 19.95 month for 20 hours online time with per minute charges for anything over the 20 hours in a month. AOL had the same billing setup too. But we;re talking about the time when 14.4 modems were fast too, you know over twenty years ago.
However I have one relative that occasionally sends me e-mail via gmail when she uses chrome. I have never signed up for anything using gmail except when I downloaded chrome and tried that out. And only used my proper name with some contest website, but signed up with them using yahoo email not gmail because I knew there would be spam. My gmail account uses as a name@gmail a name I used to use when I played D&D. The spelling of which is pretty weird and not something that would be programmed in a spambot like your examples.Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
[QUOTE=gneebore;546591]And only used my proper name with some contest website[QUOTE]
My experienc is that many game and contest sites are some of the major suppliers of mailing list.
D&D is one of the safer game sites. As for Yahoo vs Gmail, I very seldom use my Yahoo account any more since I used to get as many as 700 or more spam hits a day, some of them going to my inbox and not the spam folder.but signed up with them using yahoo email not gmail because I knew there would be spam. My gmail account uses as a name@gmail a name I used to use when I played D&D. The spelling of which is pretty weird and not something that would be programmed in a spambot like your examples.Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Maybe I should reiterate. I get tons of spam--but it goes to my spam box. I never see it, I never check it, I never empty it. I just don't see any reason to. I download my gmail to outlook.Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
[QUOTE=slimslob;546610][QUOTE=gneebore;546591]And only used my proper name with some contest websiteSorry but I was talking about actually sitting at a table with real people and rolling dice when I said I played D&D. Long before I actually owned a pc. Those character names are what I was referring to. Not the sort of spelling that would be put into a spam generation program. You know like the one the dm assigned for my first character, like Volgamand, thief. Or even some of the NPC characters I created when I started DM'ing the game.
My experienc is that many game and contest sites are some of the major suppliers of mailing list.
D&D is one of the safer game sites. As for Yahoo vs Gmail, I very seldom use my Yahoo account any more since I used to get as many as 700 or more spam hits a day, some of them going to my inbox and not the spam folder.
Yes games and contests are major suppliers of mailing list. But you are still completely ignoring that I specifically said I did not use my gmail address for game sites or anything beyond work and one relative that sends me one email occasionally. And she only uses gmail when she has to. Plus I do know her emails are where chrome/google got my nickname. You know the sort of nickname only a family member uses. She has used that to address me in the header/subject when asking if I will be stopping by for dinner etc. I did use chrome to access games websites I had previously signed up for with netscape navigator or IE. Those games sites never had my gmail address. Only chrome and work related tech support websites. Like when I was using chrome to sign up for an account with Kyocera in order to download parts manuals and order parts. Funny though they redid their website and in order to access certain parts you were required to use IE.
Like I mentioned I got rid of chrome because it just did not work as well as I liked. I preferred at the time Netscape. Then was alerted by my firewall way back when firewalls were not included with anti-virus software. Don't remember the name but it was eventually acquired by Norton and became part of their software suite. Ran task manager and lo and behold right there running in background was chrome and it was running the update for software that was supposed to have been uninstalled. Had to run regedit to search for all references to chrome and google in the registry to get rid of chrome. And not too much of a surprise google analytics running active software when their cookies are supposed to have been blockedComment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
How about putting your real name or email address into google and seeing what it brings up? Your gmail details are on some spammers list somewhere.
I can count on one hand how many times I have entered my real name on a website, you will be surprised at how many online forms accept the following, yesterday I wanted to download a pdf but the website wanted some details
First name : spam
Last name : spam
email : spam@invalid.com
I got through to the download pageComment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Well nothing came up with my name except a lot of lawyers and actors. None of which were me. Even put my nickname in and same thing Lots of pages but nothing that even comes close to me, except for on the third page and when i followed that link it was for a person half my age living in another state.
Google did not like the way I spelled my gmail address. Changed it to did you mean ....@gmail.com. So looks like my gmail details are available to only google or gmail and their spamming partners. Actual results for the gmail was a grand total of five links even with the incorrect spelling. Like I said I use a real unusual name for gmail and other email addresses. I use words or names that would not be in general use anywhere. Even learned very early on when I had internet service with a local, since purchased by Time Warner, cable internet company. They used Outlook Express as their e-mail/pop client software. Never signed up anywhere with my account email but used one of the six extra email addresses they allowed.Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Not real sure what to say. Google does not share your personal information. They just don't.
Reading your posts, I get the feeling that you don't have a background in coding. There are plenty of ways spammers can get to you. If you typed your name and password into a computer (and you had to have done this, if you were logging into gmail) then someone could have gotten it. The mistake is probably on your end. Either a virus or a site that tracked you when you left their site. Hell--it could have been a slip up on your sister's end. Something that allowed something to read her emails. Or something she forwarded to you in a group, or something from you to someone else. It could have been a lot of things. But Google doesn't share your personal information.Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Okay what part of I did not use gmail except for when I installed chrome and the installation ad me set one up do you fail to understand? A familial nickname is used to address me in the headers of the spam? A nickname I do not use for gaming, or email. She does not forward group emails. In fact as I also said she uses gmail to contact me occasionally. Even doing as you suggested showed that my name does not show up in a web search. Nor does my gmail address show up in a web search either.
Of course the disturbing reputation of google and chrome don't seem to phase you but this is a verifiable result of using chrome. There are pages of similar articles about chrome and google.
:Is Google Chrome spying on you?
https://www.google.com/#q=chrome+spying+on+youComment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
It was some web hosting thing, for $5/mo.
regardless, I still never click on ads, I accept that Chrome logs my activity whether I ask them to stop or not, it's all in some huge underground database in Utah somewhere, and I've decided that if they're going to log my activity, I'll keep it as boring as possible.
and my mobile email signature line is:
"Sent from Apple brand handheld mobile telecommunications device, fifth variant, sub-variant C."
I update it depending on what device I happen to own.
All that useless information aside, if people are seeing ads that are not work-appropriate while on this technical help forum, I would recommend inquiring to the site administrators about it, and follow their advice.Somewhere there is a tree working hard to produce oxygen for you to live, NOW GO APOLOGIZE TO IT!Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Google uses your history to decide which ads they will display when you're using their service or the services of their networks. They do not give your information to any advertisers. Analytics does track where you came from and where you're going, as well as geographical information, but this happens only if you land on a site with analytics installed on it. This information is presented to the site owner as statistics, but again, no personal information is included. I've been a google advertiser for many years. Trust me, they don't give away your personal information.Comment
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Private secure or personal information security follows a simple rule:
The information released has only to be kept secret from one person.
Every one else can know your personal data and electronic information as long as you(single person) don't know that everyone else knows that fact.
Information security is analoguous to your partner/ bed friend playing around behind your back. Everyone else in the world knows that your partner is playing around except you. As long as you never find out the facts, then there is no problem.
The information containment need only to be kept from one person. "YOU".
Why place any personal information on electronic media in the first place?
This includes medical records , childrens photos, or even simple browser habits etc.
Quantum computers are a very real fact of life. Those A.I computers are being placed online on the internet, and can out do any human intellect by orders of magnitude.
What happens when the very average intellectual power mongers or war mongers get access to that level of intel ?
What happens when a possible world wide Skynet system becomes self aware, and quickly works out that all human life is a very real threat to the planetary eco-system?Inauguration to the "AI cancel-culture" fraternity 1997...
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Re: The ads on CTN are getting out of control
Oh yeah right that computer I sent an email to with the virus was able to gather the gmail address from a yahoo or other email account. Yeah the virus was chrome. And it was my fault for installing that now proven piece of spyware in the first place. But that was nearly eight years and four computers ago so I must willingly transferred the virus to the new pc's because I accessed my e-mail accounts with the new computers.Comment
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