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by ajsnigrutin 1017 days ago
Plus some psychology.

An average user with an adblock gets hundreds, maybe even thousands of ads every day, for new cars, clutch replacements, diapers, washing detergent, shadow raid vpn, local political party, mcdowells, kentucky fried pizza, sex toys, 1:9 baluns, cisco console cables... and they don't even notice most of them.

And then something happens, your washing machine fails, you talk about it, open google, get ads for tampax, ignore them, find service, fix it and forget about everything. Then you watch stranger things, google the reviews, get an ad for yard fences, ignore that and forget about that too. Then you talk with your wife how you're out of detergent, turn on youtube and get a detergent ad... "wait, we were just talking about that? how did they know?! microphones, spying, conspiracy!".