[armchairhacker]

This is something which comes up a lot: people simultaneously complaining about invasive ad-tracking and all the ads they see suck.

But it's the truth. e.g. I visit the website of some weird brand of coffee. Suddenly, I get spammed with ads about artisan coffee, even though I could care less. Both intrusive (you took data from somewhere way outside of your domain to guess something about me) and annoying (you guessed wrong).

Moreover, this tends to happen very often for gambling, porn, weight loss, pregnancy, etc. all things which are very private, because they also happen to be stuff people spend a lot of money on. So I want to avoid those sites, not just because the government or insurance could use it against me, but because my ads will get even more annoying.

[neutronicus]

I was getting engagement rings ads for years after I made the purchase

[wruza]

Maybe their AI googled divorce rates and found these somewhat promising.

I bet that if the entire ad industry just binned all people into 16384 groups and hired 65536 specialists to curate these profiles, the industry would be much more succesful, because today it is a complete bullshit with all these pointless hi-tech and surveillance efforts. Modern ads is the stupidest thing ever created (apart from crypto).

[neolog]

*couldn't care less

[machello13]

you knew what he meant so what difference does it make?