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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywr6h_FQi9Y WOW! That sure does sound good! "...it's our way of saying thanks." But there seems to be a catch... Verizon posted:... we ask permission to use information about your use of Verizon products and services, the websites you visit and apps you use, as well as your device and its location. We may also use other information like age range, shopping preferences and information about the quantity, type, destination, location, and amount of use of your Verizon voice services. Specifically: Verizon posted:What is Verizon Selects? Here are answers to some of your frequently asked questions! If I provided my consent to participate in Verizon Selects, and then I turn off the location-based services settings on my mobile device, will my location information still be collected and used for Verizon Selects? Yes, the location information used for Verizon Selects is not related to the location settings on your device. I have recently added my phone number to the Federal Do Not Call registry, or have told Verizon that I don’t want to receive certain kinds of marketing, such as mail, emails or phone calls from Verizon’s family of companies. How do these Do Not Solicit choices affect my participation in Verizon Selects? Your decision to participate in Verizon Selects is independent of any other choices you’ve made previously. These people seem really happy with Verizon SMART rewards! But soon it may get even better!! "BestVPN posted:Even more worrying however, is that Verizon has filed for a patent on ‘Methods and Systems for Presenting an Advertisement Associated with an Ambient Action of a user’ – in other words Verizon will target mobile users for advertising based on not just on what they get up to on their device, but on what happening in their physical local environment! Creepy or what? Of course the other major carriers are doing similar things, but Verizon right now is the furthest-reaching. http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/16/technology/mobile/wireless-carrier-sell-data/ All that normal data they collect isn't enough though, when there is so much more they could collect. Hence SMART Rewards! And what exactly are the rewards you get for letting Verizon track you 24/7 and mine all of your valuable personal data? Basically discounts on random crap (that oftentimes you could get for free by searching the web), sweepstakes entries, gift cards you probably have to make a big purchase to use and lots of fine print "cheap stuff****" type things. So who is ready to sign up for these sweet rewards? And how many already have without really knowing what the gently caress it was. edit: If you have Verizon and want to op-out of their data collection poo poo, go here: http://www.verizonwireless.com/myprivacy The SMART Rewards program is opt-in (for now at least). Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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I've had the same lovely Verizon phone for 4 loving years. The only "reward" I get is like, a 15 dollar discount on a new phone. But there's a 35 dollar upgrade fee, so in reality I get nothing.
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ya they told me i had like 25k smart points and i was like woah but then i realized that i would be verizon's bitch for life if i took that deal
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:24 |
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those upper middle class people sure are happy to be living in 1984 literally
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:26 |
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A guy I work with was telling me all about how great this new Verizon rewards program is and how much money it was going to save him.
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bigperm posted:A guy I work with was telling me all about how great this new Verizon rewards program is and how much money it was going to save him. This is good for the poors.
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I looked at what they were even offering and it's like "hey with 100,000 points you can get this $100 gift card for only $90!" Wow what a deal, Verizon!!!!
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it's not like they are going to be using this information to stalk and rape your dumb, ugly wife. it's going to be used for marketing and serious business.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:34 |
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don't know why you would have Verizon with their no sim cards in the first place
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 06:20 |
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smart rewards more like dumb rewards
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Pawn 17 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywr6h_FQi9Y
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Moridin920 posted:don't know why you would have Verizon with their no sim cards in the first place In many areas, Verizon's coverage is light-years better than anyone else. But this 'smart reward' program is a steaming pile.
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JnnyThndrs posted:In many areas, Verizon's coverage is light-years better than anyone else. But this 'smart reward' program is a steaming pile. don't they all share towers now anyway though
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Worse than rapists
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 06:33 |
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gently caress Your Website posted:Worse than rapists Rapists with reward points are the worst
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 06:49 |
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hell yeah im ready to bid on that $15 tony romas gift card
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 06:55 |
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:it's not like they are going to be using this information to stalk and rape your dumb, ugly wife. it's going to be used for marketing and serious business. unless they find a way to make raping my dumb ugly wife good for business
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 07:03 |
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you'd think cataloging every minute detail about a person would be enough of a controversial and super-profitable undertaking that they would put down serious money on rewards and not half-rear end it like this like if you're going to be collecting literally everything about the person i think you can eat the cost of a free (no strings attached) phone or a tablet or etc this just makes them look gross -and- incompetent
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 07:03 |
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I'm going to get one and just breathe loudly into it all day every day
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 07:07 |
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And people thought the new Kinect was creepy
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The Rage posted:And people thought the new Kinect was creepy that's like the same deal to me too, if they're going to sell the poo poo out of someones personal info to the extent no other company has done/managed, you'd think they would spend some of those billions of dollars subsidizing their dumb thing down to like $100-200 bux instead of 500 freaking dollars god knows the first company to get away with mass-adoption of that sort of poo poo is gonna make back that money anyways
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Neurolimal posted:that's like the same deal to me too, if they're going to sell the poo poo out of someones personal info to the extent no other company has done/managed, you'd think they would spend some of those billions of dollars subsidizing their dumb thing down to like $100-200 bux instead of 500 freaking dollars That company is Google
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