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.”
In theory it sounds like a good thing, to only see ads that are relevant for you. But it doesn’t work out that way. You are more relevant to the advertiser though.
It’s actually an inconvenience to have ads convince you that you need a product. You were fine before you were targeted by the ad, now you feel like you need to spend money and effort on getting this new product.
I like to stay up to date with new exciting developments, but ads are nothing like that.