I do see what you mean about an echo chamber (filter bubble) and can understand some of your points. I guess Google's advertising has just never bothered me -

I do see what you mean about an echo chamber (filter bubble) and can understand some of your points. I guess Google's advertising has just never bothered me - and as mentioned upthread, one of my machines blocks their ad server so that I can't follow their ads when I try to: many times I've manually gotten around it to see what I tried to click. (This reminds me of how I do like their ads.) Maybe we have a difference in preferences but I just never felt stalked or the like. I suppose it might change in the future. Thanks for your thoughts.