Tag Archives: Amazon
What Privacy?
I wrote this post in 2016, but apparently it was never posted. I have no idea why. Canada has some of the highest, perhaps the highest, cell phone rates in the world. Getting a phone is fast and easy, as long as you have money. Getting a cell phone in Iraq is quite another story. […]
Don’t Get Excited!
That parcel isn’t for you. It’s for me. An early Christmas present. I should be excited, but I’m not – because I don’t know where it is. I ordered it online. Amazon of course. Partly because that is what you do these days, but mostly because I wanted it delivered to my home in Ottawa. […]
Strange Algorithms
I know that everything I do online is being watched by someone. That is just part of modern life, and I am too lazy to make myself harder to track. After all, I have nothing to hide. Sometimes though I do wonder about the brainpower of those following me around the internet. Their actions don’t […]
Phishing Licences
My Spam folder is filling up with urgent messages these days. Most purportedly from retailer Amazon. Though if they really were urgent, they wouldn’t be flagged as spam. I wonder why the spammers are so sloppy in their pitches. Maybe it is that their time is valuable. Why waste it on people with brains? The […]
What A Bargain!
Like anyone with an Amazon account, I get regular emails with items that are recommended for me based on my past purchases. All part of the “service” designed to part me from my hard-earned money. Offhand I don’t remember ever actually purchasing any of those recommended items, though I appreciate the suggestions. Yesterday’s though, from […]
Somebody Is Watching Me
Think of yourself as a snail. Whenever you surf the Internet you leave behind a small trail of slime for others to see. And exploit. I know there are ways to cover my tracks online, to disable “cookies,” to use proxy servers and various other methods to give a certain amount of anonymity. That knowledge […]
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