And the creepiness. Advertisers can deduce many habits based on the information you give them. Some techniques can tell when people are pregnant before they do based on their pathing inside the store, for instance.
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a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agothis is something i cannot understand. my brain would fking die from the seizures the modern, ad infested web induces.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
And yet, all they continue to sell me is a dryer when I just bought one a month ago.
omarfw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It used to be worse. Pop ups are mostly a thing of the past. The web used to be a shit hole and there were no ad blockers back then.
Regardless, you’re right. I don’t understand why or how people could be ignorant of the existence of adblock in 2024 unless they’re boomers.
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Since ads began, there have been ad-blockers. You just didn’t know about them.