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

Are there any lawyers in here who could write a “politicians are not allowed to say easily disproven things in a public forum any more” law?

Something where we can legally tell morons to shut up and then they actually have to

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?

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

no clue, i had spent the last 48 hours losing all the moisture in my body so i was pretty dehydrated and had a fever

that entire week was like a weird dream

i really should not have driven a car in the physical state i was in, tbh

What if i told you that any group, organization or business that places profits and advertising revenue above objective truth and a quality product is, by default, always going to be right-wing aligned?

this was only 2 years ago, right? like maybe last summer or the one before

i just don’t understand why

We hate google for being a giant, evil corporation that bribes republicans to vote against things like net neutrality or privacy rights

Why would a republican go after google? theyre on the same side

GOOGLE IS A TRILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION

Trump is so fucking stupid he doesnt even know how his party is supposed to work.

There are no leftist corporations.

im in Virginia and one time i had a really bad norovirus infection and my employer told me i would terminated if i didn’t show up and that he couldnt do anything about it (this was my 6th sick day in the past 11 months)

i showed up and had an accident on myself, very messy. Norovirus messy.

I walked into his office, reeking like hell, and i asked him if he had any mints or febreeze

He tried to send me home to change and i declined.

i agree it would be inappropriate

why would a politician debate with a convicted felon

BREAKING NEWS:

CURRENTLY RACIST MAN WAS RACIST EARLIER TOO

This is the funniest way I’ve ever seen to call someone a bot

I’m stealing it