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Those guys are stupid. I wish I can just stroll through the internet without hearing "Congratulations! You won!"

bananaman114 wrote:

PandaGuy wrote:

Those guys are stupid. I wish I can just stroll through the internet without hearing "Congratulations! You won!"

Wonder how they knew I lived in Ontario.

There's many ways they can do that, all of which I don't know.

PandaGuy wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

PandaGuy wrote:

Those guys are stupid. I wish I can just stroll through the internet without hearing "Congratulations! You won!"

Wonder how they knew I lived in Ontario.

There's many ways they can do that, all of which I don't know.

I just remembered that I found these guys because of something you had in your signature a while back 

  There's a survey there now too, and it stops you from leaving the page.

PandaGuy wrote:

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

Wonder how they knew I lived in Ontario.

Oh, they search in your computer for it. I think it has something to do with your IP address or something.

That's what I was thinking! I knew it.

Me too, I just didn't feel like posting. I knew it had something to do with IP's.

  One of them knew my full adress 0_o

PandaGuy wrote:

Those guys are stupid. I wish I can just stroll through the internet without hearing "Congratulations! You won!"

I actually like hearing that 

I like the voice.

cheddargirl wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

PandaGuy wrote:

That's what I was thinking! I knew it.

Me too, I just didn't feel like posting. I knew it had something to do with IP's.

  One of them knew my full adress 0_o

Sometimes people sell information you give them. You may have signed up for something and given your address, and then that information was sold to and exploited by a third party. I remember that, after signing up for a raffle and giving away my cellphone number for contact info, I had a guy call me on my cellphone shortly afterwards asking me if I wanted to refinance my credit card debt. O.o

My address doesn't leave my city... it would never be on the internet, but that still leaves what you said.. let's see...


    Nope. Nothing 0_o. I haven't given out my address to anyone but real life friends...
   Unless...
  Mom hasn't either. 0_o.

bananaman114 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

Me too, I just didn't feel like posting. I knew it had something to do with IP's.

  One of them knew my full adress 0_o

Sometimes people sell information you give them. You may have signed up for something and given your address, and then that information was sold to and exploited by a third party. I remember that, after signing up for a raffle and giving away my cellphone number for contact info, I had a guy call me on my cellphone shortly afterwards asking me if I wanted to refinance my credit card debt. O.o

My address doesn't leave my city... it would never be on the internet, but that still leaves what you said.. let's see...


    Nope. Nothing 0_o. I haven't given out my address to anyone but real life friends...
   Unless...
  Mom hasn't either. 0_o.

It really could be anything, and it might not be that obvious (a Facebook app is a example is how someone might get access to your personal info).

Last edited by cheddargirl (2011-07-04 18:27:08)

PandaGuy wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

PandaGuy wrote:

Those guys are stupid. I wish I can just stroll through the internet without hearing "Congratulations! You won!"

You can if you have AdBlocker and NoScript installed on your browser. 

Well, sometimes they block things that are not even ads, like videos.

You can set NoScript to block certain things without blocking others. It's how I'm able to block pop-up ads on sites without blocking Java or Flash-based applications integral to the site.

kimmy123 wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Sometimes people sell information you give them. You may have signed up for something and given your address, and then that information was sold to and exploited by a third party. I remember that, after signing up for a raffle and giving away my cellphone number for contact info, I had a guy call me on my cellphone shortly afterwards asking me if I wanted to refinance my credit card debt. O.o

My address doesn't leave my city... it would never be on the internet, but that still leaves what you said.. let's see...


    Nope. Nothing 0_o. I haven't given out my address to anyone but real life friends...
   Unless...
  Mom hasn't either. 0_o.

Maybe it just used your IP to get it...

Your IP address only displays your city and state/province, you couldn't possibly get a full home address from an IP.

However, ISPs have logs of what home addresses correspond to which IP, in case the police need to know for some reason. bananaman114, do you think it's possible that your ISP is behind those ads?

kimmy123 wrote:

PandaGuy wrote:

Those guys are stupid. I wish I can just stroll through the internet without hearing "Congratulations! You won!"

I actually like hearing that 

I like the voice.

I've never heard it... probably because I usually have my mute on 

No, no, you're not being scammed at all. It's all due to quantum physics. Let me show you how. 

You see,due to the complex laws of quantum physics, if you enter a website once and you're the one millionth visitor, you can enter it again and STILL be the one millionth visitor. What's more, when your friend enter the next day, he's also the one millionth visitor.

  Then there's this thing called quantum entanglement. If the particles of a Window computer entangle with the particles of a Mac, they will become each other. Thus, you can receive Windows error warnings when you're on a Mac.

  What's more, there's an exciting new sort of science which researchers are looking into. It appears that computers are sentient, because if you open two computers and go to a website, it will recognize you as the winner of its lottery on both, even if you don't have a webcam. Cool, right? Unfortunately, they aren't very smart, so if, let's say, your father were to go on that website on the other side of the world, they would log him as the lottery winner as well. Studies are still superficial so far, but there's a popular theory that it's because of his partially shared DNA.

   However, the researchers have to be careful about where they store data. The quantum entanglement of computers have an odd tendency to share data too. I think cheddargirl's problem was that the computer determining the raffle decided cheddargirl won the raffle, but accidently shared it, again due to entanglement, with a credit card company's computer. However, this isn't perfect and the command "Take $1000 from raffle's credit card and transfer it to cheddargirl" got distorted, becoming "Take $1000 from cheddargirl's credit card and transfer it to raffle", causing the man to believe that cheddargirl had a credit card debt.

  It's a completely new and exciting field of science, and scientists, trolls and con-men alike are fascinated by it, all shoving to become pioneers in that field.

  You should discuss it with your science teacher someday.

Last edited by helltank (2011-07-05 03:23:21)

It said I was the 1,000,000th visitor ad when I refreshed the page 5 times it still said I was 

I tried it again the next day and it still said that. FAAAAAIIIILLLLOL