I spent over $600 this month on vaping hardware, some of it high end stuff. Suddenly all kinds of new spam is hitting my inbox from vape gear places I've never heard of wanting me to order stuff from them and go to their websites. None of it is from the companies I bought my vape stuff from. So somehow these other people are finding out I bought stuff from MM Vapors and Atimizoo? Is that what's going on? Do vape hardware companies share that info all around or what? Is this about tracking cookies that record my purchases? Could they be just getting my email address from the vape forums I post to? I'm really curious about this.
How does the vape spam work?
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I've been vaping for over two years and have bought a lot of gear online, but have yet to get spam from a site I've never visited. So I'd have to guess that your sites are sharing or are very insecure.
I don't know how this happens either but I have the same issue. Not just with vaping stuff but with pretty much all online purchases,especially clothes and makeup type stuff. It's really annoying,I wish I knew how to stop it.
Just mark e-mail address you don't want to receive as spam. They will still send them but they will go right into your spam folder.
Someone you purchased from sold your e-mail address. There is a lot of money to be made selling lists.
Someone you purchased from sold your e-mail address. There is a lot of money to be made selling lists.
I guessing that when you made your order, you had to enroll to their site. This information to telemarketers and e-commerce vendors is like gold. They can make money by selling your name and any other info like your buying habits. The absolute worst thing you can ever do is fill out the little drawings for a "Free trip to the Bahamas" or other such promo. It's legal for them to sell your info, just not the credit card numbers. It's the price we pay to say a dollar. Even really big retailers do it like Home Depot and Sears.
It's the law of the Interwebs:
All your browsing history are belong to us.
If you believe otherwise, I have an authentic Picolibri Pyra to sell you for a hundred bucks.
With free shipping.
All your browsing history are belong to us.
If you believe otherwise, I have an authentic Picolibri Pyra to sell you for a hundred bucks.
With free shipping.
Yeah, they make setting up an account on their site a condition of placing the order, so I guess right there they gotcha. I never fill out anything but the ordering information, and I'm always careful to uncheck any boxes that would send me their "newsletters" or other such things. So I guess whoever I buy from is going to sell my email address and the nature of my purchases to everyone else who pays them for it. I really hate that.
True. Just taking Google as an example, they have petabytes of storage dedicated to your browsing and shopping habits, and the information gets sold to their partners. For example, get on Amazon to look at widgets, the next thing you know you're on Yahoo and there's an ad on the side for widgets! Coincidence? No. Marketing.It's the law of the Interwebs:
All your browsing history are belong to us.
If you believe otherwise, I have an authentic Picolibri Pyra to sell you for a hundred bucks.
With free shipping.
I have been buying vape gear on line for almost two years and I get a bit of spam advertising that goes straight to the junk folder. It's a part of being on line.
Spam from companies you haven't bought from is likely due to browser cookies. Depending on your operating system and browser used there are a number of free add-ons that help a great deal with keeping your e-mail address and browser history private.
Ghostry, AdBlock Plus, Blur and Spybot are some that are well regarded and work well.
edit: p.s. using DuckDuckGo in place of Google for searching also helps.
Ghostry, AdBlock Plus, Blur and Spybot are some that are well regarded and work well.
edit: p.s. using DuckDuckGo in place of Google for searching also helps.
I have bought things from about 7-8 different vendors. No spam at all so far. But just to be on a safe side I got email address I use only for vape-related purchases. If I can identify a vendor who sold my address, I will post a message on ECF and never buy from that place again.
I think most vendors are reliable, I am buying things online quite often (not for vaping), I do not have any spam at all for many years now. In earlier times it was much worse, I have to abandon several addresses over flooded with spam.
I think most vendors are reliable, I am buying things online quite often (not for vaping), I do not have any spam at all for many years now. In earlier times it was much worse, I have to abandon several addresses over flooded with spam.
Chrome or Firefox with AdBlock, Disconnect, HTTPS everywhere, Ixquick, and as Stosh mentioned, DuckDuckGo do wonders for protecting your privacy. They're not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
I'm suddenly getting some as well so I'm now on the spam list. Oh, well. So far its only two places I haven't bought from. I just delete them.
if one orders SPAM ( the "meat" product) online... will one get spammed?
just a thought... does SPAM stand for Semi Processed Animal Meat?
just a thought... does SPAM stand for Semi Processed Animal Meat?
If you get a gmail account there's a trick you can use to find out who is selling your email address.
Gmail ignores dots (periods) in email addresses, but leaves them in place. So you can get an email address like firstnamelastname (at) gmail, then use first.name.last.name (at) for one place, firstname.lastname at another place, etc. Move the dot around, remember what you used where, then when you get spam, the location of the dot(s) will tell you who sold your email address.
Gmail ignores dots (periods) in email addresses, but leaves them in place. So you can get an email address like firstnamelastname (at) gmail, then use first.name.last.name (at) for one place, firstname.lastname at another place, etc. Move the dot around, remember what you used where, then when you get spam, the location of the dot(s) will tell you who sold your email address.
From many of the posts and even my own, it's amazing how tech savvy you need to be to survive on today's internet.
p.s. The Blur add-on allows for masked email addresses, as many as you need. If you get spam on one of the masked addresses you can simply delete the address.
p.s. The Blur add-on allows for masked email addresses, as many as you need. If you get spam on one of the masked addresses you can simply delete the address.
Also NO script, Request policy and if you're realy weary about it, you can also use User agent switcher.
Hard to live without these addons these days.
Also another great safety thing to use is keyscrambler, just incase one would get a keylogger or a trojan. Personally i know how to avoid all these 99% of the cases unless its a FUD. But i'm amazed how many of my friends ive helped with their computers how much viruses and crap they've on their computers. So i guess it's quite common with not so tech savy people.
I never get vape spam...but I have quite few relatives in Nigeria writing to me asking me to jump on these lucrative deals and few pharmaceutical online sites offering me great deals on enhancement drugs..but that's about it.
Looks like you surfed by some websites that download you more than just the data you wanted to see. Doubt that one vapeshop would sell your data to another vapeshop. After all, I want you to buy my stuff, not that of the competition
But there's lots of sites that provide all sorts of info/stuff for free - from cooking recipes to 'adult' sites. And they inject applets that track and rat on every mouseclick. Ain't so free after all then, cuz they making the money by selling your data. Had the same thing - was checking price comparison sites to get an idea of how much to set aside for a color laser printer. No spam, but sidebars and banners prominently peddling their range of ... you guessed it.
If the products costs nothing, then YOU are the product
Something like 'spybot search & destroy' ( donation ware ) or some other malware cleaner gets rid of the tracking crap.
Your e-mail addy is out in the 'open' by now .. so as said previously, flagging the sender sites as spam is pretty much all u can do - short of getting a new e-mail...
But there's lots of sites that provide all sorts of info/stuff for free - from cooking recipes to 'adult' sites. And they inject applets that track and rat on every mouseclick. Ain't so free after all then, cuz they making the money by selling your data. Had the same thing - was checking price comparison sites to get an idea of how much to set aside for a color laser printer. No spam, but sidebars and banners prominently peddling their range of ... you guessed it.
If the products costs nothing, then YOU are the product
Something like 'spybot search & destroy' ( donation ware ) or some other malware cleaner gets rid of the tracking crap.
Your e-mail addy is out in the 'open' by now .. so as said previously, flagging the sender sites as spam is pretty much all u can do - short of getting a new e-mail...
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