fireurza Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 677 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1457 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 791 Achievement Points: 9890 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 11/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16 Birthday: 02/20/1986 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2015 so I was looking for a new car last week since mine started to slowly overheat and is not worth fixing. I went to a dealership website and looked at some new cars. I never requested any information or gave them my phone number. Today I got a call from that dealership saying that they saw I was looking at said car and wanted to know if I wanted any more info on it. How the hell is them using site access data to find my phone number legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
loaderXI Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6420 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6496 Achievement Points: 54362 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 12 hours ago Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2015 Wow thats kinda screwed up ...Scary a tad too because now they can sell your info to other outlets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2015 Did you drive in with your old car? License plate my guess. But yes that is fucked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uranium Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 22485 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 245 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 151 Achievement Points: 1588 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/26/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 11:26 PM Birthday: 06/26/1983 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2015 (edited) so I was looking for a new car last week since mine started to slowly overheat and is not worth fixing. I went to a dealership website and looked at some new cars. I never requested any information or gave them my phone number. Today I got a call from that dealership saying that they saw I was looking at said car and wanted to know if I wanted any more info on it. How the hell is them using site access data to find my phone number legal? Most likely done through browser tracking cookies from a site that has your phone number or enough name information data on record which sells that info to third party companies the dealership buys info from. If you are computer savvy enough you can do things to prevent that. Such as using extensions to block tracking cookies like those (Ghostery extension in Chrome for example). I usually go a step further and just use a modified hosts file (this could break some sites) I haven't had any issues getting calls and I have been looking at several dealership sites for months since I am looking to replace my 15 year old truck. Edited April 29, 2015 by alpha(bT) hxtr and BUDMAN 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2015 I missed the part about visiting the website. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ follow instruction above ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ghostery for Firefox or Chrome then Adblock Plus for added bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireurza Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 677 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1457 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 791 Achievement Points: 9890 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 11/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16 Birthday: 02/20/1986 Device: Windows Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Most likely done through browser tracking cookies from a site that has your phone number or enough name information data on record which sells that info to third party companies the dealership buys info from. If you are computer savvy enough you can do things to prevent that. Such as using extensions to block tracking cookies like those (Ghostery extension in Chrome for example). I usually go a step further and just use a modified hosts file (this could break some sites) I haven't had any issues getting calls and I have been looking at several dealership sites for months since I am looking to replace my 15 year old truck. Except the law is that they have to ask permission to use my cookies.... I have one set to ask me to accept cookies and I only go to a couple sites daily.... facebook, hulu, netflix, XI, and mangastream.... otherwise no other cookies are on here hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BUDMAN Posted April 29, 2015 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 6960 Content Per Day: 1.32 Reputation: 4503 Achievement Points: 58391 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 minutes ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted April 29, 2015 The government is here to help you ..... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
24oz Posted April 30, 2015 Member ID: 22459 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1153 Content Per Day: 0.34 Reputation: 1208 Achievement Points: 8354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 03/16/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 16 hours ago Birthday: 05/18/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted April 30, 2015 I applied for a car loan online got approved and five minutes later Carmax was calling me to buy a car from them.the lender gave my info straight to Carmax.told them both to F off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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