Home DNA tests

After I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation I had a spate of letters selling heart tests including echo, ecg etc. When I rang and asked them where they got my name and address they couldn't answer the question......

(Bit off topic but) Crun, a young friend recently had a cold sore. She sent her friend of text saying "Starting with a cold sore"! sad face emoticon. From then on in there were adverts for cold sore cream/medication on her Facebook, gmail, Google home page you name it. She has come to the conclusion that her texts are being scanned via one of the apps on her phone.

vampire there was a thread on the matter in your OP quite recently. The company currently advertising (23 and me) are part owned by Google. In my view it is a moneymaking venture and not much more (these over the counter DNA tests).

Yes, GK, I've noticed that a lot of my spam relates to subjects I have posted on forums. I wonder whether they can link a username to an email address without the forum operator giving them the info. Perhaps Pompa will be along with an answer. It would have been a lot harder to link my computer traffic to my home address, because I was using the computers in the library at that time.

I have very recently bought a car new to me which I mentioned on email to friends but also on an open forum here. I am still being invited to test drive various types of vehicles, the latest being a Mercedes, rather out of my league.

I'm always bemused by the way that Amazon et al try to sell you the very thing you just bought. If you buy a video recorder they'll show you a video recorder say and "we thought you might be interested in this".

Many apps on smartphones have dodgy privacy conditions, Apparently the Facebook app can access most of your phone. I wish I knew how to delete it

I bought a Shewee on line and was then sent an email saying "You bought a Shewwee, so we thought you might like this." It was a wooden mallet!!

Camping equipment - obviously in their minds only campers would want a Shewee!

I took part in a game on another website where we posted about bizarre things to see if an advert would appear. Our best result was when someone posted about having to wear big knickers. Sure enough the adverts for big knickers arrived followed by incontinence knickers and even bloomers lol.