Today, I've reached the depth of my paranoia. I've taped mic and cam.
>Tonight had to maintain my small lamp, which requires an E14 bulb >Took the lamp to the kitchen(my room is next to the kitchen) >So I unscrewed the bulb, and put it on the top of the microwave, casually, next to my roommate's iphone >he is cooking some shit >my computer is running,recently reinstalled my win7, door is closed, installed main drivers, and in the middle of the annoying update fest >This might sounds stupid, but I believe if I install updates in 40 packs(install 30-40 updates then restart) the OS will be faster >SO, I'm in the middle of installing another pack >going to the kitchen, doing said maintenance on my lamp >roommate accidentally knocks off the bulb, it shatters >I'm mad as fuck, as I just bought it and it's already fucked >It's okay, I've bought 2-pack, it was 1100 huf(shitty hungarian currency, roughly $4) >Claims a compensation, in money or a new bulb >tells him a bit loudly, it has to be E14 type bulb >We agree he will buy the same 2-pack bulbs tomorrow, because he is also using E14 >> hours later >sitting in my room, finished the updating torture >while I'm installing junk, I watch shitty youtube videos >Suddely notices ad(havent installed adblock yet) >the same E14 type bulb, from a different local shop, in 2-pack, AND IT IS 15% CHEAPER
>OK Google! Give me a list of psychologists in OPs local area
John Bailey
Nigga, stop using meme OSes. :/
Nolan Thompson
I think you give the botnet too much credit. I highly doubt they have the capacity to do that in 2016.
Xavier Nguyen
>My room mate's iPhone knew that I needed a certain bulb type just by being in the room
Due to how fucking dumb this place gets sometimes, I don't know if this is bait or not.
Brayden Rodriguez
That's pretty interesting if you're not making it all up.
Joshua Butler
$1 has been deposited into your account, Bulbsmann-Goldmann-Judberg Global thank you for your service.
Joseph Jackson
Did you use a club card or tracable account to buy the bulbs? If so, then system out there knows you've recently bought a particular item and they reasonably believe you would buy it again.
James Robinson
>2016 >not using adblock Your roomate googled the bulb on the same network. Problem solved
Jace Garcia
it's 100% true. Actually I'm sending my roommate to that shop, since it's closer
Jordan Bailey
asked him before I've made the post, he didnt google it freshly installed my win7
Kevin Roberts
One of you definitely googled it at some point. Relevant ads got delivered to your IP.
Nathaniel Roberts
>not led
Evan Perry
>upvote
Jordan Long
Good goyim. Now click it.
John Kelly
>micro living japan >weabo piece of shit >probably a fagot 2 >cant into yarip
Your roommate googled it but was afraid to tell you in case it triggers your autism.
Sebastian Jenkins
öld meg magad
Jaxon Carter
it's time to stop posting
Anthony Clark
No, it's real. One time I had a conversation about Warhammer 40K with some friends, an hour later, I got a targeted ad for it.
>(DOUBLE-DASH)
Joseph Sullivan
>implying it's the depth They are after on Sup Forums too...
Asher Watson
>not blocking/hidings ads Ignorance is bliss
David Hughes
An iPhone is always recording if you have Siri enabled. Talking about the type of lightbulb you have being picked up and added to your advertising profile isn't too far stretched.
Colton Moore
I had a cold one day and told no one
facebook showed me a nurofen ad
Oliver Stewart
That's literally what Google explicitly does with Assistant and Now
Jonathan Cooper
>I think you give the botnet too much credit. I highly doubt they have the capacity to do that in 2016.
i bet you looked up what bulb your lamp uses, you dumb nigger.
Adrian Wilson
protip: use "cigany" instead of nigger if you wanna trigger the hungry man
Easton Lee
You deserve it for being a dumb fuck still living in Hungary when you have English skills like that.
Julian Garcia
That would only make yourself look like an idiot - gypsies speak less than 1 language here, it would be completely impossible for them to be online and posting on Sup Forums.
Joseph Adams
iphones are always listening but it seems a leap for OP's computer to be cooperating.
Also OP is dumb with his 40 pack thing.
Probably he just googled the shit and forgot about it.
Asher Allen
>iphones are always listening but it seems a leap for OP's computer to be cooperating. IP addresses. Apple doesn't share your private information with third parties when it shares advertising info but your IP address isn't considered private information. So they simply just shared people at IP blah talking about lightbulbs with advertisers and thus lightbulb adverts.
Aaron Gutierrez
I had the same thing happen now at least three times. All for very specific products ive nevered searched before. I tell my brother we need something to make the place smell better next day ads for the exact febreeze type stuff we got. Then it was sams club tell my brother we should get a membership then ads start showing up. Then at work my coworker asks me to make an intro for a movie for him. Then i start getting ads for pre made intros. Pretty much this is confirmed facebook and google are using at least your phones to monitor irl conversation tailored to your speech.
Josiah Carter
Nice blog, buttfucker.
Adrian Parker
You don't even need to google it. Buying it from a webstore or anything related also causes this.
James Carter
tanulj meg zöldszöveget írni
Christian Thompson
Usually people catch a cold or flu at the same time, on average. So the ads could have simply targeted everyone in an area where there is a statistical peak in amount of people having flu at this time of year.
Adrian Jenkins
So you think it's definitely not connected to the fact that you had freaking bought the same kind of light bulb a couple of days before?
Kayden Allen
This. Your roommate googled the bulb because he's not as autistic as you and needed to remember it/find the exact one.
Daniel Clark
If you bought one online before, or searched for it, that's probably the reason why you're seeing that ad....
Ian Kelly
Did your friend search up the bulb on his phone while connected to your network?
When i search up flight prices on my phone i get ads on my laptop. So i gog linux
Joseph Sanders
I'm pretty sure Siri doesn't know hungarian...
Hudson Scott
>Watching Weeaboo shit documentaries
You deserve that advert, Kristóf.
Evan Robinson
does this happen to anyone else as well? sometimes I'm THINKING about something and then I see it advertised on Facebook or Google
Nicholas Gonzalez
Advertisers _are_ tracking you. But no worries: they just want to sell you stuff. Get a tracking protection plugin.
You sound like you have obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Get that checked out by a doctor.
Connor Wood
Why the fuck do you not have Adblock or Aero enabled, pleb?
Luis Garcia
I already have ublock origin, tampermonkey with anti-adblock killer reek, kaspersky protection (private browsing). What should I install next?
Blake Jones
Login to your fucking google account so sync extenstions. Are you seroius?
Easton Gonzalez
>Adblock Ublock, my friend
Joshua Martinez
I've been using AdBlock for five years and it's worked fine so long as you turn acceptable ads off. All ads are unacceptable.
Caleb Hill
>it works fine :^) >not going for perfection you dont belong here
Dylan Taylor
Because either: - you logged into Gmail, and you googled the lamp before re-installing. - your roommate googled the lamp from the same home IP address.
David Morales
What's so much better about uBlock? It's an ad blocker; there's not much difference between them.
Xavier Perez
OP, if you at any point searched for that model lightbulb on the internet, then it isn't is bad as you think. the internet will feed you ads based on your searches
however, if you never used the computer to look up lightbulbs at all, then they used keywords from your conversation to feed you ads
Jaxon Cox
Milyen nagy fasz vagy. Ha azt hiszed ez lehetséges, használj valami fos oprendszert. Buzizgeci
Grayson Kelly
>more efficient >uses less ram >can block scripts >the ui is better >isn't owned by racketeering rolacks >the dev is an autist that will never sell out
Matthew Gutierrez
>psychologists >gists kek
Alexander Robinson
uBlock origin isn't bought by an (((((advertising company))))) yet.
Eventually they too will sell out and then it's time to move on to the next one.
Logan Perry
I actually had a similar thing happen to me lately
>drinking with friends >iphone in my pocket >one of friends asks if i ever tried Southern Comfort >no >we carry on Next morning >wake up, check the phone >the very first thing i see on facebook is promoted post from Southern Comfort >most of online ads are also about Southern Comfort
FUCK
Jordan Stewart
>recently reinstalled my win7, found your problem OP
Angel Anderson
You're stupidly naive
Jose Barnes
>being ignorant
Luke Perry
I was talking to a friend while out for a pizza/beer about processors, he was browsing facebook on his phone and suddenly got i5/i7 messages. After that I told him about the whole botnet thing, he's a sceptic and I said: Look I'll prove it, lets talk about nothing but cars for the next 20-30 minutes then browse facebook again. Sure enough he got an ad for car insurance. He said that "doesn't count". You draw your own conclusions.
Leo Davis
It's 100x more lightweight, faster, more stable, doesn't come with bullshit “acceptable ads (;” by default, doesn't try to jew you out the ass
Xavier Reyes
Nice tinfoil everyone :3 Its like you really hate convenience haha
Grayson Thompson
i love the denial of the plebs
when faced with the evidence, they realize how terrible things are that they cannot face it, so deny deny deny it is
Zachary Allen
Well you are willingly using a web browser from a company that claims they do no evil. Only Satan and evil people need to say such things. They didn't make a web browser to be nice. They did it so they can spy on you for their own and the USA governments account. All of which will be traded with friendly intelligence agencies. Chrome will for example download binaries from google secretly using a backdoor.
Tyler Carter
your roommate googled it retard
Joseph Jackson
How did you buy the bulb?
If you paid cash in hand, then its kind of creepy.
If you thought to google the kind of bulb you needed, went and ordered it on anazom and then went on youtube and saw a google ad for it then no its not aliens its you being a retard
Henry Howard
with ublock you will not see the ads that you see with adblock.
Evan Myers
>getting "mad as fuck" over an accidentally broken bulb
seek help
Jacob Howard
>next day ads for the exact febreeze type stuff we got >we got >next day Obviously they're just selling your credit card history to ad networks.
Adam Jenkins
I think more extensive experiments like this should be done, most of all you would also establish a baseline, i.e. the number of car ads you saw before talking about it. >pick some subjects (cars, home improvement, computers, clothing) >monitor the frequency of ads related to that product for a few days >talk about one of the products >see if the number of ads related to that go up Also the monitoring should be double blind, i.e. done by someone who doesn't know which product you've chosen to talk about. If you don't do it like this it's all just baseless paranoia.
Ryder King
MAYBE JUST MAYBE DID YOU FUCKING SEARCHED FOR BULBS IN GOOGLE? THAT SPECIFIC MODEL?
IF SO YOU DUN GOOFED SON THAT'S BEEN GOOGLE'S STANDARD BEHAVIOUR WHEN SPYING ON YOUR SEARCH HABITS LOL
Nathan Baker
>download and watch Futurama from a private tracker >get ads for futurama tshirts and stuff on FB as targeted posts
Samuel Davis
>thinking the botnet is not listening to you in any way it can >post-Snowden era An hero, idiots.
>implies computers can't connect to the internet >while posting on Sup Forums
Jordan Carter
>Probably he just googled the shit and forgot about it.
This. Put down your tinfoil hats, retards.
Charles Lopez
>paranoid af >Using windows
Joshua Young
This For god sake its a light bulb OP paid 2 dollars Chill
Brody Butler
Mongols are like that, what did you expect?
Easton Parker
Thanks OP i am spooked now
Christian Anderson
OP here
checked roommate's webhistory on his tab and phone when he left, no signs of e14 bulb I've backed up my whole google folder before the wipe, including my history. I would remember if i've searched for that, and no evidence in my history
the whole conversation went in hungarian, so it makes it even scarier I've got a sexy batch file to uninstall all the winshill telemetry bullshit, at this time I didnt run it yet, so I was running on full blown telemetry
inb4 install gentoo I'm dualbooting win7(for vidya) and debian
bought the bulb with card, in a local store, highly doubt it's connected, tho I've logged on to my bank service many times from this IP.
I was angry because I will have to go to the shop for another lightbulb, I always like to have atleast one spare. It's for my reading lamp, once it's out I have to use the main lamp, which I dont really like at late night
Christian Howard
by using a products that OPENLY admit spying on you, you waive all right to complain about being spied on
Sebastian Hill
>Eventually they too will sell out and then it's time to move on to the next one. you can be assured that gorhil has already been offered large amounts of money for various cooperation and actively avoids help (to avoid sabotage). So far, he seems to have held up rather well.
Sebastian Moore
OS? media player?
Nathaniel Flores
Oy vey! Sweet money!
Cameron Gomez
Get the fuck out of here you normalfag piece of shit.
Jack Ortiz
>"Taping" >Not just disabling it on the os You don't belong on a technology board.
Hudson Miller
what if you can't really disable it on the OS level?
Michael Fisher
>trusting the OS Retarded winbabby
Christopher Robinson
>software spies massively on you >ask software nicely to stop spying on you fuck off
Elijah Allen
OP, te egy fogyatékos szar vagy.
Nicholas Nelson
>not using ublock origin
Benjamin Long
The botnet just doesn't serve me ads because it knows I have no money. Saves me from having to install an ad blocker at least