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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."

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (17 children)

From where comes the idea that personalised ads are good? I hate this timeline.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Google is a large company, they need to pay their employees and server. It's pretty entitled of you to expect them to work for free. /s

I read this everywhere these days. Shilling has become culture.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (7 children)

No I understand why websites show ads. I don't understand why whenever I disable personal ads, I get a message saying "Are you really sure? If you disable this you won't see your favourite ads anymore and only see ads for things you probably don't want to buy. That'd be awful wouldn't it?" and expect me to change my mind because that's definitely not why I wanted to disable it in the first place.

They act as if people like to see ads because then they can buy stuff they think they want/need. And I'm getting afraid that's actually true for a lot of people too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They frame it that way to reenforce the notion that ads are an inevitable thing.

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