• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There were whole threads of people saying this stuff doesn’t happen. They would say it just didn’t make sense that companies would do this, it’s not worth it to them. That all the ads I was seeing at convenient times were just a coincidence.

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      2 months ago

      Right and your evidence is “I think it happens”.

      Show me the stack trace.

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      2 months ago

      I have my camera and microphone deactivated on the OS level because Youtube and Spotify would show me things workmates mentioned way too often.

      I didn’t notice it since.

      Could still be a major coincidence though, the biggest of them.

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        2 months ago

        Same exact thing for me, and same exact results. Also too major of a coincidence in my mind.

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      2 months ago

      And they are right. This company is full of shit. Show me any proof the tech from the deleted advert actually existed.

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      2 months ago

      There are simps in this thread trying to say “uuuuhmmmm AKSHUALLY it’s not Facebook directly” like that’s fucking relevant to the problem.

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      2 months ago

      The next iteration of gaslighting is already here: That it’s no big deal anyway since you can just use an ad blocker. Riiight, let’s all just turn our eyes away to make the monster go away. Surely, it’ll get bored and stop listening and recording, and surely, it will not sell its collected data off to banks, insurance providers, the government, law enforcement… right?

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        2 months ago

        Seriously… If ad-blockers worked at a high enough level to actually impact this shit, then they wouldn’t be doing it. They know most people don’t bother with ad blockers, and because of that, they’re low-hanging fruit.

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      2 months ago

      They’re here in this thread lol. No matter what, these people will deny its happening. I don’t understand it.