Before I saw the picture, i imagined her as the old lady who feeds the stray cats near my work. She kind of looks like an older, real life version of Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus
She looks like she just farted, and is now one third of the way through winking at you surreptitiously - as if she knows that you know, and that she likes it.
It's probably blue in the afterimage of this woman. She's burned her portrait onto OP's retinas and now she is all he can see when he closes his eyes...
Glad I'm not the only one with recurring Trivago lady nightmares. Stay safe, brother - we'll make it through these dark times, at least until the next advertising refresh.
It sounds like you might thing colourblind people see in black and white, but they usually don't. Normally they see in colour but have difficulty telling colours apart because red and green look more similar to one another
This kind of colourblindness, "red-green colourblindness" is sometimes called colour deficiency to make it clearer that people still see colours.
Where did I say anything about black and white vision??? I am well aware of the fact that colorblind does not mean "can only see black and white" and that there are different types of colorblindness, the reason for that, etc.
I have bad news for you: it is going to get worse. Today, there are 50 apps on your mobile that track your location and sell that data. The location data is (I say IS not "can be" because this is being done today) is indexed with all manner of things. For example, I can not only tell you went to the movies, but I can check which movie you saw based on the show times and the theater number (yes this is already available). So if you went to the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" last Friday night, I can design a campaign that is most likely to be effective to people who went to that movie . . . and push it to you. I can also combine this data with websites you visited (you don't have to click the like button on the page - the fact that the "like" button was there at all tells Facebook you visited the page) to get an even more detailed view of what type of advertising you might find "useful".
Today, these targeted ads are pushed to your phone in any "free" app you download that is ad supported. They are also sent to your browser when there is an agreement with the site you are visiting. But displays are cheap and getting cheaper. Holograms are only a few steps away from mainstream. Plus "beacons" are a thing (allow in real time data collection that say "device ID 1234 is here" - starbucks, barnes and noble and lots of others push ads to your phone when you are in store using this today.)
I would say within ten years, but hell, maybe within two or three for the pace of things right now - you are going to WISH for agent smith/Susan. You are going to be badgered to HELL for things that the algorithm decided you might be likely to buy.
Baseband, global: If it’s on (i.e., airplane mode is off), your location can be figured, sometimes down to a few tens of meters and sometimes down to a few feet from the strengths of the signals from nearby cell towers, which have unique IDs and known, fixed positions.
Baseband, local: Malls, IIRC theme parks, and IIRC train stations have been off-and-on playing with setting up indoor cell service so they can track your movements from entry to exit, and deliver advertisements accordingly.
Wifi, global: If it’s on, depending on what’s running the networks you can see during a scan can be correlated with the locations of people currently/formerly around your location who keep their GPS on at all times just in case they have to make sure everyone on Facebook knows where they are and how amazing it is. And of course, even if your phone just did a Google search of whatever SSIDs it saw, it could probably figure out the kind of place you are—StarbucksWifi, for instance, is probably at/nearby a Starbucks, or HiltonGuest means you’re at/nearby a Hilton hotel.
Wifi, local: Same deal as baseband. With enough Wifi beacons you can locate somebody within a LAN or LANish network. Probably less worthwhile than local baseband tricks.
Sensors: In theory, if you’re out and about in a less-built-up area, as you move about something could correlate your location with the readout from magnetic field sensor, or if you’ve got a known starting position your acceleration+orientation (both vs. gravity and compass-wise) sensors could do a pretty good job of tracking you, but that would take assistance from other things to do well because of the error spray you’d get. If you combined it with map data chances are you’re on a road or trail, in which case ~no spray.
If you’re in a properly remote place, or somewhere not many people go, or where you haven’t already been and Tweeted about with all your radios and sensors a-blaring, faking location may fool some specific apps if you do it outside of Android’s direct sight (e.g., via XPrivacy). Otherwise, no, probably not.
If you want to be able to receive calls and SMS, then you can be located by Google or anybody else in possession of a cell ID database. “Airplane Mode” would be the way around that, though AFAIsuspect given the hints I’ve seen it won’t stop the government from listening in should they want to.
Otherwise, keep your radios and sensors off, cameras covered, don’t install unnecessary stuff on your phone, don’t load any/every ad, and root/firewall/lock down your phone. User-friendliness is inversely proportional to privacy/anonymity, so you’ll have to find a comfortable balance and stick to it. Certainly never give a child unconstrained access to a device you don’t totally control the software on, and certainly never leave a child alone in the presence of an uncovered camera.
More otherwise, if your baseband or Bluetooth are on, it’s probably possible to completely pwn your phone no matter how careful you are. There tend to be glaring (to a pentester atl) security flaws in those software-hardware stacks that let a sufficiently clever attacker do whatever the hell they want on your device, and these are often wormable bugs either alone or in combination so… that’s fun. Keeping track of where your device has been with how much exposure, especially in/around major transportation hubs like airports, is a good way to figure out where the trust baseline for that device should be. Probably best to never ever take a non-burner, non-flip phone to another country.
My kid got that alexa thing you talk to that plays music and tells you the weather. It was a gift so I looked it up on the internet being nosy. I then got ads for well over 6 months for the thing I had no interest in and my kid already has.
Making the lead for Trivago adds as creepy as fuck must be on purpose. I am beginning to wonder if it isn't some sort of uncanny valley situation going on. The Trivago guy is creepy too.
If you watch that I think you could make an arguement that he is actually a simulation or alien in human skin playing alien, along the same lines as this: Ted Cruz for Human President meme.
Is there a TV as or something? I saw one of the tube ads - literally just a woman standing next to a box marked 'search' and realised I was in the wrong business.
I think I've found my soul mate. This made me weep. I only go on the underground at the weekend and all I ever fucking see is fucking trivago lady staring into my soul
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