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Esophagus4
270 days ago
Exactly - while you and I might route our DNS queries by carrier pigeon to avoid tracking, some of my family actually like personalized ads on social media and even buy things from them.
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fishmicrowaver
270 days ago
I installed an ad blocker on our home Internet on a raspberry pi. My wife told me to take it off.
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kyriakos
270 days ago
To be fair dns ad blocking causes problems to everyday browsing, I understand your wife complaining about it.
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fishmicrowaver
269 days ago
You are correct, however I shared this anecdote because her stated reason was she missed the ads.
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array_key_first
269 days ago
I have never met anyone who enjoyed ads. These people do not exist.
They might
fall
for ads. In the same way I smoked for years and hated smoking.
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