Credit card companies now offering to scan ur inbox for receipts

ilikegunspdx · Dec 9, 2021

Claiming to "save u money" and "100% free". You only have to give them total access to ur email so they can access and I assume download your receipts (and who knows what else).

Holy crap I bet a lot of people fall for this. Scary. This is capital one but if they r doing it it will only be short time before they all are. U have to sign up for it thank goodness, it's not automatic.

Alexx1401 · Dec 9, 2021

They of course want to sell the information to others to market to you. Everything we do online is seen by others. All that info is worth money to those who want to try to sell us other stuff. To me its a big who cares. As long as they are not giving my phone # out to robo callers I could care less if other spam me trying to sell me crap I don't want.

Flopsweat · Dec 9, 2021

For crying out loud, you're not 10. You can spell "your" and "you". You're an intelligent adult with valuable insight and opinions. No need to type like a texting pre-teen.

Alexx1401 · Dec 9, 2021

Flopsweat said:
For crying out loud, you're not 10. You can spell "your" and "you". You're an intelligent adult with valuable insight and opinions. No need to type like a texting pre-teen.

Sadly many now even talk in that "text shorthand". The first few times I head it it took me a while to realize why their speech sounded so "off". I guess I could see the desire for the shorthand back in the days before phones all had a full keyboard and all. Hell now I think all Android phones have the text to speech so not sure why kids still use that other than maybe habit? I use text a lot and only because of the text to speech thing. Although do have to be careful at work. Couple times I was texting the boss and someone else would be talking close enough to me that the phone was typing in both of us at the same time. Almost hit send a couple times before I spotted it.

Flopsweat · Dec 9, 2021

Alexx1401 said:
Sadly many now even talk in that "text shorthand". The first few times I head it it took me a while to realize why their speech sounded so "off". I guess I could see the desire for the shorthand back in the days before phones all had a full keyboard and all. Hell now I think all Android phones have the text to speech so not sure why kids still use that other than maybe habit? I use text a lot and only because of the text to speech thing. Although do have to be careful at work. Couple times I was texting the boss and someone else would be talking close enough to me that the phone was typing in both of us at the same time. Almost hit send a couple times before I spotted it.

I remember one new developer we hired. She was bright, articulate and good at her job, but she would do u and pls and bcs in messages and in the bug database. I told her you know there are over a thousand people who have access to that database right?