LongRoadBob
Cleared for Takeoff
I think it was an episode about two weeks ago of John Oliver “Last Week Tonight” where his main “story” was all about robo calls. He pointed out “and is really a non partisan issue, right...yet some politicians are allowing it to happen”
At the end of the show he pushes a button to start some robo callers to those politicians that will call them ever like 90 minutes, asking them to help stop this epidemic.
It is a political show though, so be warned or just fast forward to the robo call segment if you might now like the rest.
Actually just found it...just the robo call segment
Also wish they would start getting smarter about cookies, tracking for marketing. Imagine a small town, you go into the hardware store and buy a flashlight one day. From that point on any time you go into that, or any other store the staff starts pointing you to flashlights...”hey mr. smith, we got some dandy new flashlights in! Check these out!” “Uh, no thanks, I already bought one ten month ago here and I’m all set. Don’t need another, thanks” “they got em in all kinds of colors” “please stop talking to me about damned flashlights!”
It occurred to me, and I never even searched for spinning tops, every time I visit some sites the top banner is some really elegant, shiny, precision made spinning tops.
Ought to be a button, “I’m never going to buy this crap, kindly stop showing it to me each time! I want one even less now than I did the other 432 times you showed it to me, and even the first time I didn’t want it. Now I hate them!”
Or another one, “I already bought snow tires, I’m not in the market for these!”
At the end of the show he pushes a button to start some robo callers to those politicians that will call them ever like 90 minutes, asking them to help stop this epidemic.
It is a political show though, so be warned or just fast forward to the robo call segment if you might now like the rest.
Actually just found it...just the robo call segment
Also wish they would start getting smarter about cookies, tracking for marketing. Imagine a small town, you go into the hardware store and buy a flashlight one day. From that point on any time you go into that, or any other store the staff starts pointing you to flashlights...”hey mr. smith, we got some dandy new flashlights in! Check these out!” “Uh, no thanks, I already bought one ten month ago here and I’m all set. Don’t need another, thanks” “they got em in all kinds of colors” “please stop talking to me about damned flashlights!”
It occurred to me, and I never even searched for spinning tops, every time I visit some sites the top banner is some really elegant, shiny, precision made spinning tops.
Ought to be a button, “I’m never going to buy this crap, kindly stop showing it to me each time! I want one even less now than I did the other 432 times you showed it to me, and even the first time I didn’t want it. Now I hate them!”
Or another one, “I already bought snow tires, I’m not in the market for these!”
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