I am mad at google

[jhellwig]

And I refuse to let my chrome book capitalize google..............yes I know....


Aside from all the other reasons to not like google and its invasion of everything in you life I found another. After looking at an ammo website recomended in a thread on this site I closed the page and went on to something else. I cleared all the notifications on my android phone and as usual it found some other notification to push into my face as soon as I cleared it. Oddly enough it usually is a gmail notification. The email I got a notification from was the ammo site I was on. I had not entered any info into that website yet I get an email from them for 10% off. So it seems that no matter how you opt out of their data mining and sharing there is always so other way that you get advertised directly to. I wouldn't mind except most of the email I get is daily repeated notifications wanting me to buy stuff that no matter how many times I unsubscribe it keeps coming.

Is there a better browser for chrome book that might help curb some of this junk? I use the duck duck go browser on my phone and iPad but it is crummy on chrome book and doesn't do that much good at blocking ads. At this point I am so fed up with everything constantly blasting me with ads I am considering becoming Amish.

This was more of a rant than anything.

 

[skyactiv]

Without ad's the internet and your email wouldn't be "free".

 

[cpayne5]

Without ad's the internet and your email wouldn't be "free".

Yes, whenever a service is free, you are the product.

 

[Hall]

Your complaint lies with the ammo website, not Google

 

[factorytuned2012]

And I refuse to let my chrome book capitalize google..............yes I know....


Aside from all the other reasons to not like google and its invasion of everything in you life I found another. After looking at an ammo website recomended in a thread on this site I closed the page and went on to something else. I cleared all the notifications on my android phone and as usual it found some other notification to push into my face as soon as I cleared it. Oddly enough it usually is a gmail notification. The email I got a notification from was the ammo site I was on. I had not entered any info into that website yet I get an email from them for 10% off. So it seems that no matter how you opt out of their data mining and sharing there is always so other way that you get advertised directly to. I wouldn't mind except most of the email I get is daily repeated notifications wanting me to buy stuff that no matter how many times I unsubscribe it keeps coming.

Is there a better browser for chrome book that might help curb some of this junk? I use the duck duck go browser on my phone and iPad but it is crummy on chrome book and doesn't do that much good at blocking ads. At this point I am so fed up with everything constantly blasting me with ads I am considering becoming Amish.

This was more of a rant than anything.

my father comes over and gets on my wifi with his phone and I later have emails from sites, offers etc of whatever he was browsing. usually firearms related stuff. have you tried duckduckgo browser?

 

[MNgopher]

Blame google if you want, but you really should vent at the website. Not a google issue.

Also sounds like you really need to figure out how to adjust your notifications. I don't get notified of any email except the from folks i want that from as an example. All in the settings.

 

[jhellwig]

Without ad's the internet and your email wouldn't be "free".

I am well aware of that but you used to have a choice by not clicking ads and the info you didn't have a choice in was not of much consequence.

Yes, whenever a service is free, you are the product.

It doesn't matter if you pay for the service. You are still the product.

Your complaint lies with the ammo website, not Google

Nope. It lies with google. No way for them to know my email withought google giving it to them via their browser and OS.

my father comes over and gets on my wifi with his phone and I later have emails from sites, offers etc of whatever he was browsing. usually firearms related stuff. have you tried duckduckgo browser?

Read my post.

 

[SC Maintenance]

You can install linux on your chrome-book, by itself or dual boot.

 

[SumGuy]

It's called a HOSTS file. At least on Windoze you can have quite a large one, that you control. On Android? Probably not so much.

 

[ripcord]

I use Firefox with a browser add on called NoScript which shows all the domains that the web page is getting JavaScript files from to run on your local browser. A huge number of them are google scripts and are how google is getting the info about your activities on the other web site.

 

[Hall]

Nope. It lies with google. No way for them to know my email withought google giving it to them via their browser and OS.

You clearly don't know how "big data" works and how they connect things, but go ahead and fight the wrong battle if you insist.

 

[factorytuned2012]

I am well aware of that but you used to have a choice by not clicking ads and the info you didn't have a choice in was not of much consequence.

It doesn't matter if you pay for the service. You are still the product.

Nope. It lies with google. No way for them to know my email withought google giving it to them via their browser and OS.

Read my post.

Read my post.

Have you enabled the DuckDuckGo privacy extension? That’s what I use on my Chromebook and chrome seems less lethal

 

[jhellwig]

You can install linux on your chrome-book, by itself or dual boot.

Didn't know you could do it on chrome book. I have played with some version of Linux in the past but don't have any windows laptops that arent ancient. Just chrome books.

You clearly don't know how "big data" works and how they connect things, but go ahead and fight the wrong battle if you insist.

Who do you think "big data" is?

Have you enabled the DuckDuckGo privacy extension? That’s what I use on my Chromebook and chrome seems less lethal

I am not sure. Haven't tried that I know of. Their browser for chrome OS is not very good.

 

[factorytuned2012]

Didn't know you could do it on chrome book. I have played with some version of Linux in the past but don't have any windows laptops that arent ancient. Just chrome books.

Who do you think "big data" is?

I am not sure. Haven't tried that I know of. Their browser for chrome OS is not very good.

Yes you’re right about the browser for chrome os. Search how to install and enable the DuckDuckGo privacy extension and set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine that should help to a degree.

 

[MNgopher]

...

Who do you think "big data" is?

...

If you believe that only Google is big data, you have no idea...

Again, direct your ire to the website that employs the tools that sent you the email. Being blunt, google didn't have to give them a thing for them to get your gmail address...

 

[Skippy722]

This is partly why I went to Apple. Still see the occasional ads, but I’m not completely inundated by ads pertaining to my browsing… so if anyone needs a whole gasoline dispenser let me know

Oh yeah, safari is pretty okay at blocking tracking.

 

[KrisZ]

Many websites can use your Google account instead of creating a new one. There is usually a sign in pop-up to use the Google account, or Facebook account or whatever else you’re using on your device.
I have a feeling that’s what happened to OP. Otherwise no site will know your email address if you didn’t enter it yourself on their site somewhere.

 

[jhellwig]

If you believe that only Google is big data, you have no idea...

Again, direct your ire to the website that employs the tools that sent you the email. Being blunt, google didn't have to give them a thing for them to get your gmail address...

After some reading I will concede that google isn’t the main culprit but their fingerprints are on it because this data doesn’t just come out of thin air and all devices and programs involved were google devices. Also google is mining data from that site and did nothing to prevent this.

It appears that the culprit is safeopt”dot”com that is hosted on AWS. From a short amount of reading it is a dirtbag company that retailers use to specifically send you unsolicited emails after visiting their site without asking permission.

 

[MNgopher]

If certain that is the place that sent you the email, note the following from their own site:

"Don't remember signing up through our website directly? Then you must have joined SafeOpt through one of our many publisher or brand partners' sites. We have a partner network with 2,000+ large brands and publishers. When people sign up for emails on a site in our partner network, they can join our network at the same time. Typically, this is presented as a check box on whatever form the user is filling out, but it varies from site to site."

In other words, you signed up for it (if indeed that is where your email came from).

None of that is a Google issue...

 

[ka9mnx]

Brave Browser?