The cloud has gotten much smarter lately. I see Google being much more pervasive in people’s lives. I see Facebook getting in my face more often. For instance, the day after I posted this about Sochi, showing a toilet on my blog, I get this spam post in Facebook, smack on the front of my wall:
It has the gall to show me a Like button, like I am going to Share this with all my followers? Really? No, I am actually writing a blog post about it, publishing it to the world – much worse.
I don’t like this, I don’t like this one bit.
Of course, now that my blog is going down the toilet, and since I am in toilet humor territory, I will just have to write more toilet posts. Stay tuned!
Anybody have a good deal on nitroglycerin. [<– just to mess with the NSA]
You’re right, it’s crap!
You can get rid of a lot of this by always deleting a cookie called DoubleClick after you surf the web. Actually, Google has a DoubleClick opt-out option at google.com/ads/preferences. Unfortunately, this doesn’t eliminate DoubleClick’s IP address-based tracking.
Now, this is spooky. A friend called me this morning to tell me about a web site called Zulily that sells all blue clothes — my favorite color. I typed the name into UltraEdit, my text editor. A couple of hours later, I went to the Washington Post web site. The ad banner had an ad for Zulily! HAS to be a coincidence, right?
Must be coincidence!
It’s disgusting how all this is so acceptable now! I loved your parting shot, btw. 🙂