oh i know how this works and its not the way you think. Its somehow better and worse at the same time

Im going to describe the process using a hypothetical situation:

You decide to try a new shampoo but you’re not sure what to buy. You ask your friend “hey what shampoo do you use” and they tell you they use Head and Shoulders.

Later that night, you google head and shoulders and read reviews

The next day, your friend gets Head and Shoulders ads on youtube and facebook and Instagram, etc

This is because google knows both of your locations and search history. It sees that you two were within a few feet of each for hours and decides to shoot ads at you both, based on what either of you have searched recently.

This is called proximity targetted advertising and i think its gross.

But this is why so many people say things like “we were talking about it and now im seeing ads they must be spying on me”

Alright fine ill switch browsers AGAIN

if only there was a simple easy solution

that was a great summary, thank you

trying to research such a broad topic was overwhelming

im either joking, a liar or a time traveler

Occams Razor would suggest I’m probably not a time traveler

i must be doing something wrong because to me, duckduckgo doesnt even work as well as AskJeeves did in 2001

Thats crazy because in the timeline i came from, everyone knew Google was a monopoly 20 years ago!

Have you guys boycotted facebook for stealing your information yet? We started talking about that back in 2012.

And you all abandoned Youtube for being inconsistent with their copyright process and how they monetize creators, right? Right?

America dominates my news feeds to the point that I just assumed law enforcement was an internationally fascist agency

what is that in metric?

i crave decisiveness like that. it would make me so happy if that sort of behavior became the norm.

too many corpos getting away with murder because they are more convenient than their competitors or because switching is too hard

hello, i have chosen to value your opinion above my own based on very shaky reasoning i will not be sharing

I abandoned chrome for being too RAM-hungry when im playing games w the browser open

i abandoned Internet Explorer for being too slow

and i abandoned firefox for being too bloated and sluggish, but that was like 2010 and things change

im currently using Opera but why do you choose firefox over its contemporaries?

im astounded they were arrested

usually these news articles end with “and the police did nothing at all until a black teenager was spotted holding a churro and shot into a fine mist by 30 officers on scene”

is your house just an oven and a light switch?

every netsec admin i know lives like that and is DISGUSTED at how many “smart” appliances i have

If a product says “AI” on it, and its not talking about NPCs in a videogame, i assume the product is shitty and took 30x the energy to produce than a human-made product of the same quality

ooh a delicious Poe’s Law moment

are you an idiot or hilarious?

ah but the not knowing is the fun part

edit: okay i didnt read the room, my bad. Im coming from reddit and Instagram, so im used to dealing with redditors and whoever Instagram is for. im new, I’ll adjust

just an endless march of black presidents at this point. how many have we had now? one? outrageous

the words of someone DESPERATE to find a way to call libs racist

My plan was to steal one from a real estate company but i can try your thing

thats a lot of questions im not qualified to answer, unfortunately

I didnt get any further than blind outrage at the situation and fantasies about fist-fighting the people at fault

iirc the hospital tipped the police about the abortion

which does, in fact, make me more angry