Google literally giving me sex talk lines.

  • @irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    1510 months ago

    Google knows what you like and these days they will take any ad because they fired all the screening staff. My ads are usually pretty average since I opt out of everything I possibly can opt out of and I use Startpage for search, so they aren’t as targeted. That’s one positive thing about Google. They started as a relatively ethical company for an ad company, so there’s a lot of code and best practices in place for opting out of things. That is fading, but it’s way better than others. Like Facebook showing ads for things I searched for a few seconds ago on Amazon and stuff like that.

      • @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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        39 months ago

        Facebook has crawlers that follow you around the web. It’s not that Amazon is sharing info, it’s that Facebook is tracking your browsing history (if you let it).