What scares you most? And why exactly this? : memes

[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 111 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works 35 points 10 months ago

Except when it's YouTube recommendations, then they only pay attention when it's wrong and not when it's right.

[-] gramathy@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago

What, you don’t want right wing misinformation shoved down your throat constantly despite reporting it every time you see it?

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 10 months ago

As if YouTube would ever get it right.

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[+] Blimp7990@reddthat.com 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

They either don't know adblock exists or are listening to YouTubers like Linus, who claim that blocking ads on their videos is "stealing"

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[-] OddrunAsmundr@lemm.ee 60 points 10 months ago

You guys get ads?

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[-] Tetra@kbin.social 55 points 10 months ago

Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me

[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Yesterday my ublock failed me and I had to watch a full 5 seconds of ads for 3 times! Fortunately it seems to work after updating filters now

[-] Tetra@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

See, that right there is true horror.

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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago

Wait, did we go from being freaked out that our devices might be passively recording our speech to accepting it as the "good and normal" version of things? Cause I'm pretty alarmed at both.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I was going to say this! Just goes to show how dangerously effective mass conditioning by unscrupulous corporations is!

Hell, a lot of people think that caring about data privacy and -security AT ALL is for losers unless naked pics are involved 🤦

[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

My favorite counterargument is asking these idiots if they close the toilet door. Because if they don't want people to watch them shit, then they probably are hiding some suspicious stuff.

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[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your devices recording you is something that doesn't happen.

That requires a lot of bandwidth, or a lot of battery and a little bandwidth. There's no evidence of that happening.

Honestly, the creepier thing is that they don't have to to get creepily accurate ads.

Geolocation data means they know who you spend time with. They also know their search history. They know your interests. They can look at what people who seem similar to you search for.

Plus, they serve you a lot of ads so they can afford to have a lot of misses.

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[-] HurgletOfficial@monyet.cc 39 points 10 months ago

Imagine getting ads in 2023.

uBlock Origin and uMatrix chads rise up

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[-] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago

You get ads:

💀💀💀

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

I genuinely feel bad for the people who actually get ads online these days.

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

No ads

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Fuck, forgot to seal the kilograms of coke in my luggage.

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[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

What are ads?

-pihole / uBlock / Brave browser user

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe addons, idk?

-adguard home / ublock / Mull browser user

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[-] parpol@programming.dev 25 points 10 months ago

Both are the right picture

[-] AnonymousBaba@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

you get ads

no i dont

[-] regalia@literature.cafe 18 points 10 months ago

I haven't seen ads in years lol. I'm very aggressively adblocked on every layer possible. Even down to setting my router to use an adblocker dns as a final protection layer.

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't worry, those big platforms can't read your thoughts. Those ads aren't there because you thought of those things.

Because it's the other way around. They want you to buy the stuff they have ads for so they manipulate you into thinking about those things first.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

So they have read AND write access to your thoughts.

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[-] weird_nugget@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I've been doubting my sexuality lately and I freaked out when Google recommended an ad with LGBT couple on it. Not even my friends or family know that side of me.

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Oh, it's been proven Google and corporate social medias (and Walmart?!?) can figure out that stuff before you do.

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[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

You get ads about things you have photographed. If you give Facebook image access, it will scan ALL of your photos locally. I had some photos of couches it started giving me ads for them.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago

Oh that explains the penis enlargement pills.....

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[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

The function that is yourself had been approximated.

[-] TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago

You get ads

😱

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Can't even imagine getting a simple ad

[-] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

Ad-blocker blocker blocking ad blocker in sites scares me

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[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

What's really gonna bake your noodle later is if you'd have thought about that thing at all if it wasn't something they were advertising...

[-] ZarbtheBard@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

I used to get ads exclusively for cleaning supplies on this one music app I used only when I cleaned. Never talked about cleaning, just the sounds of cleaning and dishes being done. Probably a coincidence but it freaked me out enough I stopped using that and just downloaded a shit ton of music to my phone.

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[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Something something adblock

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