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Big Brother Is Watching You

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Well, I don't know about you, but he certainly must be watching me. Look what popped up in the advertisement area of my email program just now.

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P.S. (I take generic levothyroxine, not the brand name.)

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Marz

Eyes and ears everywhere we don't need them and yet none where we do 😎

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BonnieG123

I do believe he is watching. Especially anything we put on the Internet.

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Sweeneythyca

These 'advertising cookies' are stored on your device. If you can't clear cache or ranp up your internet security use a web browser called duckduckgo, it is like many browsers (google,chrome,firefox) but it is private and your data and browsing is private. I did a bunch of maintenance in my laptop and phone and was shocked at the amount of breaches i had allowed. 😊

However, I find that the data "they" keep about you is not very accurate. As I work in IT, I keep getting ads for replacement windows...

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vocalEK in reply toAngel_of_the_North

LOL.

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serenfach

If you download something like Ghostery it helps make your computer safer as it cannot be seen by big brother. Worth having a look. I get fed up with penis extension ads, as an elderly female, who has never searched for anything like that!

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madge1979 in reply toserenfach

Oh my God ...... haha. Mx🌹

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