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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (19 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yesterday my ublock failed me and I had to watch a full 5 seconds of ads for 3 times! Fortunately it seems to work after updating filters now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, that right there is true horror.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wait, did we go from being freaked out that our devices might be passively recording our speech to accepting it as the "good and normal" version of things? Cause I'm pretty alarmed at both.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was going to say this! Just goes to show how dangerously effective mass conditioning by unscrupulous corporations is!

Hell, a lot of people think that caring about data privacy and -security AT ALL is for losers unless naked pics are involved 🤦

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

bUtItSfOrThEcHiLdRen!!11!1!

dOyOuHaVeSoMeThInGtOhIdE?11??!?1?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite counterargument is asking these idiots if they close the toilet door. Because if they don't want people to watch them shit, then they probably are hiding some suspicious stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's obvios they have something to hide if they want to close the door. They should make everyone see how they shit for the sake of our children

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Your devices recording you is something that doesn't happen.

That requires a lot of bandwidth, or a lot of battery and a little bandwidth. There's no evidence of that happening.

Honestly, the creepier thing is that they don't have to to get creepily accurate ads.

Geolocation data means they know who you spend time with. They also know their search history. They know your interests. They can look at what people who seem similar to you search for.

Plus, they serve you a lot of ads so they can afford to have a lot of misses.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Imagine getting ads in 2023.

uBlock Origin and uMatrix chads rise up

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I genuinely feel bad for the people who actually get ads online these days.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck, forgot to seal the kilograms of coke in my luggage.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are ads?

-pihole / uBlock / Brave browser user

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe addons, idk?

-adguard home / ublock / Mull browser user

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen ads in years lol. I'm very aggressively adblocked on every layer possible. Even down to setting my router to use an adblocker dns as a final protection layer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Don't worry, those big platforms can't read your thoughts. Those ads aren't there because you thought of those things.

Because it's the other way around. They want you to buy the stuff they have ads for so they manipulate you into thinking about those things first.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So they have read AND write access to your thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've been doubting my sexuality lately and I freaked out when Google recommended an ad with LGBT couple on it. Not even my friends or family know that side of me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh, it's been proven Google and corporate social medias (and Walmart?!?) can figure out that stuff before you do.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get ads about things you have photographed. If you give Facebook image access, it will scan ALL of your photos locally. I had some photos of couches it started giving me ads for them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh that explains the penis enlargement pills.....

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You get ads

😱

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The function that is yourself had been approximated.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't even imagine getting a simple ad

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ad-blocker blocker blocking ad blocker in sites scares me

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to get ads exclusively for cleaning supplies on this one music app I used only when I cleaned. Never talked about cleaning, just the sounds of cleaning and dishes being done. Probably a coincidence but it freaked me out enough I stopped using that and just downloaded a shit ton of music to my phone.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

What's really gonna bake your noodle later is if you'd have thought about that thing at all if it wasn't something they were advertising...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Something something adblock

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Google basically uses the same tricks "mind readers" do except they have a lot more information. They don't need to read your thoughts or listen in to your conversations. If you start looking at cribs online they're going to send you ads breast pumps in a few months followed by baby food makers 6 months later.

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