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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6632497" data-attributes="member: 8835">Yeah, I did the $200 lamp is now $40 fix for my old Sony LCD rear projection as well.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oddly enough, I find the customized advertising less concerning.&nbsp; Perhaps as a tech guy, to me it's &quot;well, what did you expect&quot; and &quot;duh, it's inherently obvious to associate identity and search patterns to customized preferences for ads.&quot;&nbsp; To me, that's what us programmers do.&nbsp; We interconnect and use data to get stuff done.&nbsp; If my job is to show you ads and provide a search engine, I'm gonna use the data to show you more relevant ads.&nbsp; Technically, that's better than me showing you ads for feminine hygiene products that you don't want to see or ever click on.I hate ads in general.&nbsp; But that's because I don't like shopping.&nbsp; I don't like buying things.&nbsp; I guess the count has gone up, but for the last 10 years, I could count the number of online purchases I've made on my fingers.&nbsp; One of my co-workers used to tease me about that.&nbsp; It's not from paranoia, my credit card had been plugged into my wife's amazon account for ever.&nbsp; It's just I prefer to be less consumerist.&nbsp; My bank account also wishes me to be less consumerist. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6632497, member: 8835"] Yeah, I did the $200 lamp is now $40 fix for my old Sony LCD rear projection as well.. :) Oddly enough, I find the customized advertising less concerning. Perhaps as a tech guy, to me it's "well, what did you expect" and "duh, it's inherently obvious to associate identity and search patterns to customized preferences for ads." To me, that's what us programmers do. We interconnect and use data to get stuff done. If my job is to show you ads and provide a search engine, I'm gonna use the data to show you more relevant ads. Technically, that's better than me showing you ads for feminine hygiene products that you don't want to see or ever click on. I hate ads in general. But that's because I don't like shopping. I don't like buying things. I guess the count has gone up, but for the last 10 years, I could count the number of online purchases I've made on my fingers. One of my co-workers used to tease me about that. It's not from paranoia, my credit card had been plugged into my wife's amazon account for ever. It's just I prefer to be less consumerist. My bank account also wishes me to be less consumerist. :) [/QUOTE]

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