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Brands get your phone number and call when they see you browsing
- DHPersonal 7y agoThis seems like a bad idea for almost every consumer. For those who know how this works, it builds distrust about how the company is using one's data; for those who are unaware, I think it would scare them.
- Porthos9K 7y agoI would never tolerate such hard-sell tactics. I don't think anybody should.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 7y agoNever really thought about the fact that third party trackers would have permission to scrape a form for information. In theory, entirely possible but not something I have ever looked for (surfing without js is an inbuilt habit). Has anyone come across an example and how prevalent is it? Quote from the article to clarify "... said if a consumer has ever added their phone number into a form and there was a tracker on that web page looking for that information, that phone number can be added to a person's "profile" for those companies collecting that information".
- perl4ever 7y agoI've gotten survey emails in response to buying something in a physical store.