• addictedtochaos@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      its way more likely that your mom searched for cancer related information on google. and you are connected to your mom, so you get ads as well.

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        2 months ago

        I get the feeling this thing, I mean, the ad targeting is far stronger in the USA (maybe also in europe) than in the rest of the world. My “ad targeting” is idiotic. I once was in brazil (argentinian here!). And got ads in portuguese for a year or so. I was a month planning on buying a computer, with all that that involves (google searchs, looking for prices on internet) and i never got an ad until i actually bought everything, then it was 2 months of ads recommending me to buy the exact same components i already bought.

        As today, half of my ads are in german. Jokes on them, i use them to learn.

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      2 months ago

      Man ain’t nobody escaping feds in the fucking fed land if they want to fuck you over legit or not.

      But we ain’t got to make it easy for them either, let them do their jobs if they think they got something.

      Privacy for me at least is denying the corporate the data. Your story and many other ones like it reinforces the well known fact that they farm us.

      But clearly shit works based on ad trash cos valuations. But we still got adult men and women out here who got nothing to hide 🤡