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imagine the horror of being shown ads you find useful

• cdmckay 2y ago
  Imagine the horror of not being shown ads at all
  • mavhc 2y ago
    Google did try letting you pay to not see ads, guess not enough people did it as they killed the programme
• andirk 2y ago
  I am personally fine with advertisements curated to me. I intentionally interact with Instagram ads that I like to affect the algorithm, even if I don't care for the product at that moment. However, with request fingerprinting [0] and the like, the targeting can go far beyond the web surfer's awareness and desires. [0] https://amiunique.org/fingerprint https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
• laxis96 2y ago
  Imagine the horror of not having to sift through tens of ads just to read a single paragraph of text, and not being constantly nagged by full screen popup video ads...