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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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An advertising industry worker's take on adblockers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by CowsLookLikeMaps to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah I agree to some extent.

There's that target / pregnancy story where basically they found that they would spook customers by revealing how much they actually knew. I don't think is an adequate explanation though.

Honestly though, even without any nefarious shady tracking techniques, someone like Amazon should be able to figure out what stuff I might want to buy with alarming accuracy just based on previous purchases. They really don't though, the best they can do is show me stuff I've already bought. Like "We see you bought a great coffee machine last month, what about this other coffee machine? Or perhaps we can tempt you with this fancy coffee machine?" I mean - show me some nice coffee mugs or something.