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I’d like to say I saw the “normal selection”, but the truth is I don’t remember. I’m fairly certain there were not many washing machines there, but probably a g
by 8fingerlouie 6y ago
I’d like to say I saw the “normal selection”, but the truth is I don’t remember. I’m fairly certain there were not many washing machines there, but probably a good deal of “tech”.
In any case, I put up a network wide Pi-hole blocker shortly after it because the washing machine adds didn’t just show up on my single device, but pretty much every device i own, including my wife’s phone.
I’ve since spent a long time since trying to convince my wife that Apple doesn’t listen for keywords and sell it (though I have no doubt Facebook, Google and Amazon would - if allowed), and that the fact she was seeing washing machine adds as well was either that she had searched for one (at the same time) or they were basing it on our public ip.
I also switched my search engine to DDG at the same time, and it’s quite funny watching the profiling algorithms struggle to find something they think I like. There are still washing machines in there, but the rest of the adds are pretty much all over the place.