> ...but these practices now begin the moment someone is born. Sadly, no. They begin long before someone is born. A decade ago, Target was discussing how the

> ...but these practices now begin the moment someone is born. Sadly, no. They begin long before someone is born. A decade ago, Target was discussing how they could identify that someone was pregnant, and start targeting ads to them. Plus, the art of making it not look like they were doing this. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.... I'm a bit late to the "... yeah, the tech industry has turned evil!" bandwagon, but am actively moving away from most of it lately. I've gotten rid of my Apple stuff (or am moving away from the rest), won't run Win11, colo a server to host stuff, have been moving to Matrix, etc. It's a bit of a pain, certainly, but I've also been perfectly willing to go with a "If I can't come up with a sane way to do it, it's not worth doing" attitude towards that which I can't do.