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Originally posted by @js357
The other day I was playing one of these silly RHP forum games and posted something about a Red Carnation hotel in South Africa. It has a funny motto. A day or so later, I opened CNN and there was an add for Red Carnation hotel in South Africa.

Is RHP selling access to ***subscriber*** data?
I looked at a Hawaiian guitarist named Kimo West and next time I went to Amazon lo and behold there were a half dozen Kimo CD's for sale. Freaky if you ask me.
One place I went looking at amateur radio equipment on a totally different site, next time to Amazon, can you give a blind guess as to what was on the ad's there? They seem to have their fingers into the entire internet. We don't need to worry about Ruskies, we need to worry about Amazon.

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Originally posted by @js357
The other day I was playing one of these silly RHP forum games and posted something about a Red Carnation hotel in South Africa. It has a funny motto. A day or so later, I opened CNN and there was an add for Red Carnation hotel in South Africa.

Is RHP selling access to ***subscriber*** data?
Who isn't is a better question.

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No data has ever (or will ever) be sold to third parties. This is not Facebook. 🙂

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Originally posted by @russ
No data has ever (or will ever) be sold to third parties. This is not Facebook. 🙂
Thanks Russ

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Originally posted by @sonhouse
I looked at a Hawaiian guitarist named Kimo West and next time I went to Amazon lo and behold there were a half dozen Kimo CD's for sale. Freaky if you ask me.
One place I went looking at amateur radio equipment on a totally different site, next time to Amazon, can you give a blind guess as to what was on the ad's there? They seem to have their fingers into the entire internet. We don't need to worry about Ruskies, we need to worry about Amazon.
Well. Slight correction, there: we do need to worry about Putin's bot brigade. And Chinese malware, and the NSA. But we need to worry about Amazon more - and about Google more than that.

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Originally posted by @russ
No data has ever (or will ever) be sold to third parties. This is not Facebook. 🙂
May it be that our browsers glean date from our posts? I’m pretty ignorant about this.

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Originally posted by @russ
No data has ever (or will ever) be sold to third parties. This is not Facebook. 🙂
Then why do i keep getting ads on RHP for inflatable My Little Ponies and flights to San Francisco??

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Originally posted by @js357
May it be that our browsers glean date from our posts? I’m pretty ignorant about this.
It's all in your cookies.