It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.

  • ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works
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    The joke is on them as I am the sort of person who does not see the ads. I mean I see them of course, but they extremely rarely make me interested. Like it is very rare that I see an ad and click on it. This the case on all platforms and I am not blocking my data. I wonder what % of people are like me as I cannot be the only one? I am not even saying that there could not be more ads I would be interested in, but clearly the tech no matter how advanced they say it is, is not very sophisticated as of yet.

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      The only ads I ever click on are when I search something like “brother dcp-l2550w toner” and the first result is an ad for Staples where I was going to buy the thing anyway. Even if I saw an ad for that exact toner and said “ah, that reminds me I need more toner,” I’d still not click that ad but rather go search as described because I do not click ads.

      There have been times I’ve been so annoyed by a company’s ads that instead of buying their product I go with their direct competitor out of pure spite (if I needed something like the item in question, ykwim).