• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They do that through my smartphone, not my email. Unless you’re talking about online locations. Either way they can’t sell me shit since I used adblockers for all my life and forever will be using them.

    • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Bruh — virtual where you are. What sites you are a member of (remember they know your clicks too), what sites you have cancelled, what ads worked and what ads don’t. They are reading your mail and make no bones about it.

      Your profile and demographic is racked and stacked. Even if you block ads they are selling you & your abstract content themes to people who want to market to you.

      Marketing campaigns and targeted messaging may include some corny sites that are intended to pitch a message to you as a category of person—gone are the days where some banner is all it is, I am talking about SEO to entice you to click.

      Have you ever read some whack article on a site that didn’t quite make sense? Somebody else paid for that site to try and legitimize a messsge that is too easily blocked by ad blockers.

      I am not saying you should feel bad, and despite all this metadata, when is the last time a targeted ad actually interested you? Prolly like never.

      Just be aware—look at googles stock price…that is based on you using their services.