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His In-Laws Found Out About the Dolphin 😳

Shawn Ryan Show

A person shares an embarrassing story about purchasing an intimate product called 'Dolphin' that coincidentally appeared in targeted advertisements shown to their visiting in-laws, leading to an awkward misunderstanding. The speaker then pivots to promoting their privacy app called Glacier, which prevents data brokers from harvesting personal information from smartphone apps.

Summary

The speaker describes their experience attempting to add excitement to their intimate life by purchasing sex toys online. While browsing various products, they settled on purchasing an item called 'Dolphin.' Shortly after the purchase, the speaker's in-laws visited their home. Both the mother-in-law and father-in-law independently began discussing something called 'Dolphin,' which confused and embarrassed the speaker. Unable to tolerate the paranoia and awkwardness, the speaker admitted to purchasing the product. However, the in-laws revealed they had been receiving advertisements for this same product on their phones, clarifying the source of the confusion. The speaker attributes this situation to data brokers and applications that extract personal information from smartphone apps and subsequently target it to people across networks. In response to this privacy concern, the speaker created an app called Glacier, designed to prevent data extraction from phones and block targeted advertising across networks.

Key Insights

  • The speaker purchased an intimate product online called 'Dolphin' and subsequently experienced targeted advertisements for that same product appearing on their in-laws' phones during a visit
  • The speaker's initial paranoia about the in-laws knowing about the purchase proved unfounded when the in-laws revealed they were simply seeing advertisements for the product on their devices
  • The speaker attributes the targeted advertisements appearing on the in-laws' phones to data brokers and applications that extract personal information from smartphone apps
  • The embarrassing situation involving the Dolphin product ads motivated the speaker to create Glacier, an application designed to prevent data extraction from phones
  • Glacier app's function is to block data from being harvested from phones and prevent that data from being advertised to people on the user's network across various locations

Topics

Online shopping for intimate productsTargeted advertising and data collectionData broker practicesPrivacy invasion through mobile appsGlacier privacy application

Transcript

[0:00] So, I wanted to add some spice to my intimate life. So I started looking for sex toys. Some of them need to be worn. Looking at some of them, you think: "How the hell can you even wear this?" And I stopped at this thing. It is called "dolphin ". A couple of weeks after I purchased this magical erotic toy, my relatives decided to visit us. My mother-in-law comes out and makes herself coffee. And suddenly he just starts talking about some thing called a "dolphin." Then the father-in-law comes out and looks very irritated. He also starts talking about this "dolphin." I couldn't stand it because of my [0:30] own paranoia and admitted that I bought…

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