OT Cell Phone

Jiles

Well-known Member
A friend and I, had lunch at Hardies.
Neither of us used our cell phones while in the restaurant.
Later that day, friend called me and said he got a text message from Hardies?
He also asked me if I received one, and I said no.
How did hardies get his phone number?
 

If the restaurant provides free wifi and his phone attached to it (he would not necessarily know it unless he happened to look while it was attached) then their system pulled the number from their router. If you attach a phone to a router, software can get the number. It is getting pretty common around me. McDonalds will sometimes text coupons or ads while my friends and I are drinking coffee.
 
I'll bet Hardies has an app that saves the numbers of the phones that come in to their establishment- there are apps that can track you wherever you go.

I'm also put off by going to Amazon to look at something, and it has an ad in the sidebar for some product whose website I visited- specifically, those poison worms for moles that GeoInd was posting about awhile back. Apparently, the worm folks left a cookie when I visited their site.

Ain't no hidin' places anymore. . .
 
Somehow a Wi-Fi connection took place? I dunno.
But some few short years ago my wife and I were at our son's bedside, he did not feel well, late one night, and we asked just tell us what the symptom were? What's wrong exactly? He told us, and we discussed what in the world it could be..... We questioned each other as to what it could be. In a second, his phone laying on the table said "If you'll wait just a minute I'm trying to figure it out..." The cell phone somehow had Googled the symptoms, and it was listening to us discuss things. IT WAS SITTING THERE LISTENING TO US. THEN REPLYING!!
 
Wi-Fi as explained.
When I leave my home or shop Wi-Fi goes off and
I use the network which I have almost everything I can get away with turned Off.
Tom
 
May be tracking you by GPS, I get messages all the time asking if the food was good during my recent visit to such and such restaurant, or sometimes it asks if I want suggestions as to what is good. Try switching GPS off and see if they go away.
 
yup, wifi. It's all getting too scary for me.

I get annoyed by all the ads and so forth. Like, I occasionally check my wife's facebook at work (I don't have an account) if my kids are traveling or posted pix. Then when I get home she'll say "what did you buy now?". She will have ads on her facebook page for stuff similar to what I may have looked for on my computer at work. There was a chainsaw ad one time, an ad for step bumpers for my p/u, stuff for work, etc. So Facebook scoured my computer saw what I was browsing and decided to share that with my wife. :shock:

Can't wait until I'm retired and I can go OFF THE GRID! :D
 
You do not have to connect to WIFI, someone knows exactly where your phone was, probably an app you loaded has spyware embedded in it.
 
I would not call it scary. I would call it invasion of privacy. I do not need every business that I patronize tracking me and trying to sell me more. For the most part, businesses are trying to sell me things that I do not need or want.
 
It is part of one of his apps. Tell him to
turn off the location setting on his phone
and try it again. When I was of vacation a
couple months ago I would get stuff like
that, but I had the location turned on for
directions . After I turned it off they
stopped.
 

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