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by mojzu 1380 days ago
Agreed, in addition the amount of personal information advertising companies collect is staggering and incredibly creepy. I believe an exposed API link was posted to HN some time back that allowed you to query your data from one of the big ones, I like to think I take some care with who I give that data to, but they had almost every phone number, home/work address, email address, social media profile, etc. I'd used over the past 15 years.

Until the advertising industry cleans house and abides to some level of standards and ethics I have no qualms blocking every advert I possibly can