Charging NOT to have ads?
Amazon can go suck diarrhea through a dirty old tramp's sweaty sock before I'd subscribe to that kind of racketeering. I hate ads at the best of times [don't get me started on the worst], so being they track everything you once a customer, it's pretty obvious I'll not be doing business with Amazon at any time during this lifetime or the next
As for a Kindle, eReader, whatever, they can shove it. If I want to read a book I'll go to the public library... and if they haven't got it, I'll wait until they do. That's right, I'm as tight as a fish's arse... and that's watertight. I buy only what I want or need... when I want or need it, not when some pumped up salaried ponce in retail or advertising says so.
Yup, the big companies know how to drive people away... well anyone with half a brain, that is.... meaning people with a mind of their own who can't be swayed by advertising and retail pressure to buy shit they don't need. It never ceases to amaze me... the ads say come in and buy this and this and this and save... next day there's a freaking queue outside the door just itching to spend its money. And there was me thinking that to save money you didn't spend it. Silly f**king me! Anyhow, I digress... wanted to talk about the big stores driving people away.
So, I was recently told about a couple of major department stores here in Australia that now have facial recognition technology and can gain access to your 'smart' phone to target you with ads and products via text messages, email and in person when in-store. Well they just lost an entire family as customers, not that I often went to either company's stores too often. Now that they've got that kind of crap going on I most certainly won't be returning to a store near me at any time in this lifetime... or the next.
I might not have a smart phone they can get me on [got one of those simple effers that makes/receives calls/text], but that facial recognition crap definitely goes way beyond it for me. Nope, it's not on! Took four coppers an Olympic shot putter and an ex-professional wrestler to hold me down for a mug shot once, so no freaking store is getting pics of me for free... and certainly not for the purpose of targeting me with damned unwelcome ads I neither want or need.
Bastards!!! And when those store that don't have facial recognition, get it, that's when I wear the mask. Yup, I think I still got that Ronald Reagan mask here someplace. If not, I know where I can pick up a cheap one of Bill Clinton... just hope nobody expects me to hand me old feller out when I see an intern.
Anyhow, Doc, thanks for the open door [mentioning advertising] so's I could vent a bit. Orright, vent a lot, but hey, it's quiet around here without mrs s and I needed some occupational therapy to stop the insanity setting in. Okay, so I'm somewhat late [yeah, I know what you're all thinking] but Shaunna gets home on Sunday and I'll be just fine after that... well maybe.
