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by crtasm 619 days ago
Because it's none of their business what websites I'm looking at, especially completely unrelated websites. Remove the re-targeting and tracking then they don't need to know who's looking at the page.
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You probably use a debit or credit card for a lot of your purchases - don't you?
Nope, I use cash. Besides "and yet, you participate in modern society therefore you must endorse all of its problems" is not a good take, IMHO.
> Nope, I use cash.

So you admit to being an extremist then. You probably find problems with a great deal of the modern world as well.

You can't buy things online with cash. Your opinion on what people do online is therefore, colored significantly and is definitely out of touch with most people's experiences.

Declaring anyone who disagrees with you (and acts on those ideas) as an extremist is a neat trick, but the only thing it actually gives you is an ad hominem.
A person who only uses cash for payments in 2024 is in fact, an extremist.

A person who only uses cash cannot purchase things online either. This entire thread is about online shopping/advertising.

A person who only uses cash has no relevant opinion on this topic.

A thread doesn't have to have a winner.
Most of the websites I look at I am not making any kind of payment. What is the point you're trying to make?
So you're telling us you are receiving targeted advertisements for websites that don't even sell anything?

Color me skeptical.

No.. I really don't know what you're on about.