Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.

“We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you’re looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we’ll probably opt you back in when you aren’t paying attention.”

  • stebo
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    471 year ago

    From where comes the idea that personalised ads are good? I hate this timeline.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Google is a large company, they need to pay their employees and server. It’s pretty entitled of you to expect them to work for free. /s

      I read this everywhere these days. Shilling has become culture.

      • stebo
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        141 year ago

        No I understand why websites show ads. I don’t understand why whenever I disable personal ads, I get a message saying “Are you really sure? If you disable this you won’t see your favourite ads anymore and only see ads for things you probably don’t want to buy. That’d be awful wouldn’t it?” and expect me to change my mind because that’s definitely not why I wanted to disable it in the first place.

        They act as if people like to see ads because then they can buy stuff they think they want/need. And I’m getting afraid that’s actually true for a lot of people too.

        • lorez
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          81 year ago

          I dunno how other people operate but I never once bought something off an ad.

          • stebo
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            61 year ago

            me neither I think? but it probably still subconsciously affects me

            • Shush
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              11 year ago

              Does it? Can you even remember a product that you bought after looking at its ad?

              • stebo
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                11 year ago

                Games probably. If I’m browsing the store looking for new games, any games I’ve seen in ads will probably pique my interest more because I recognise them.

                Same with food, movies, so many other things.

            • lorez
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              -21 year ago

              Let me take a look at what I buy. No, everything has been reviewed, thought upon (cos I ain’t rich) and then maybe bought.

        • @flop_leash_973
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          11 year ago

          They frame it that way to reenforce the notion that ads are an inevitable thing.

      • stravanasu
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        101 year ago

        As Netflix and producers of toilet paper know well, people in the end are happy to pay for things they like or need. But Google and its like have discovered that instead of selling stuff to me, it’s much more profitable to sell me to others.

        No thanks.

        • Queen HawlSera
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          God I wish the days would catch on in america, you just don’t get the same level of clean with toilet paper, seriously I used to have problems with an itchy anus, doctor always said it was normal. Even when it was red from wiping too much just to try to get rid of the itch.

          Switching to a bidet cured everything.

          If I start to itch back there I just use the bidet, clears it right up

        • stebo
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          71 year ago

          I support indie/small groups of devs who want some money for their work.

          It’s just the rich companies I despise.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        11 year ago

        Sadly it hasn’t become culture, that was a thing even back in the days when the internet was just gamefaqs, new grounds, and whatever Message Board your mates went to.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      21 year ago

      They are good on paper

      But not in execution

      If you’re going to show me ads thag I give a shit about they may be less annoying.

      • @cjsolx
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        31 year ago

        We wouldn’t have gotten this far if they weren’t good in execution. Ads may not work on you or many people in this thread, but it works on enough people to make this worth it.