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addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoits way more likely that your mom searched for cancer related information on google. and you are connected to your mom, so you get ads as well.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I get the feeling this thing, I mean, the add targeting is far stronger in the USA (maybe also in europe) than in the rest of the world. My “add targeting” is idiotic. I once was in brazil (argentinian here!). And got adds in portuguese for a year or so. I was a month planning on buying a computer, with all that that involves (google searchs, looking for prices on internet) and i never got an add until i actually bought everything, then it was 2 months of adds recommending me to buy the exact same components i already bought.
As today, half of my adds are in german. Jokes on them, i use them to learn.
Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I dont mean to be snide, but the shorthand for advertisement is ‘ad’, not add.
Also, using uBlock Origin on Firefox (or its various forks) gets you rid of ads pretty much universally. It’s also an security feature in the post-2000’s internet; lots of malware use ads as an attack vector.
You should not need to suffer through ads - no one should.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thank you
addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
europe has more complicated laws about privacy and data mining