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by al_borland 13 hours ago
Nor have I, I’ve never even willing clicked on an ad, but I see countless others do it when I watch over their shoulder.

I’ve also seen seemingly normal people argue in favor of user tracking and data harvesting so they could get ads that were more relevant to them. They claimed they genuinely found them useful.

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I was helping a family member find something on Amazon, and she was extremely frustrated that I was fighting their their only semi-functional sorting, to find an actually good product, instead of just clicking on the ads and paying more to buy something worse, instead of spending 15 minutes finding something that would do what we need.