Political ads running on site

[darjr]

Oh my god! Yea. So many freaking shoes!!!

 

[J.Quondam]

I mostly just get TEMU ads for brightly colored plastic objects and/or plastic clothing of a thoroughly mysterious nature.

 

[Morrus]

Right now I have vintage cars (?!?), the Natural History Museum (hmm.. I watched a nature doc on TV earlier... weird), and a Disney+ 'inside scoop' show about Coleen Rooney.

Would be nice to see some dice or something!

 

[Thourne]

Google ads, oi!
About 9 years ago I was running a game where everyone was a teen.
So, I googled "teen fashion", cuz I have the olds and needed a clue.
It took almost 4 years before I stopped getting ads for school clothes, etc

 

[Vexorg]

It is so hard to tell what is going to cause that sort of thing. I like D&D (obvs) and metal music (not exclusively) and video games and working out. Every once in a while after I follow my feed to an unknown to me content creator, I am suddenly getting ads for tactical hoodies, survivalist tools and anti-trans documentaries. It is infuriating.

I want to know what a tactical hoodie is.

 

[Echohawk]

I want to know what a tactical hoodie is.

Nice try. You almost had me googling it to find out, which would have inevitably resulted in me getting tactical hoodie adverts from now until eternity.

 

[Reynard]

I want to know what a tactical hoodie is.

Apparently it is a hoodie with extra zipper pockets and a willingness to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This is usually a good time to remind people of the following-

If services on the internet are free, then you are the product. There are numerous ways to make it so that you maintain a little more (or a lot more) privacy- using a different browser that doesn't allow tracking. Not using google for searches. Not using facebook. Using a VPN. And so on.

It's truly unfortunate that we've gotten to the point where so much of the default settings of basic services allow for our personal information to be out there and monetized, but you can try and minimize it. In America (at least) you can't fully protect yourself- data services can (and will) pay to get your information from other public sources, and facebook can (and will) create "shadow profile" for you based on the information it collects even if you're not a user (collecting the information from other sources, including what people on facebook say about you or photos that they post that have you in it). But you can try and minimize the amount of information that they have about you.

 

[Riley]

Ew. I need to go pour bleach all over Google, then.

Thanks.

Google selects ads for this middle-aged guy based largely on the browsing habits of the queer enby 14-year-old who shares my home.

It’s a rollercoaster of suprises.

 

[Morrus]

I want to know what a tactical hoodie is.

Of course, the fact that you are reading a thread which is currently discussing what a tactical hoodie is might be enough to get you those lovely tactical hoodie ads!