Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.

“We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you’re looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we’ll probably opt you back in when you aren’t paying attention.”

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    1 year ago

    I used to sometimes. When there was a simple, clean ad for something I was interested in, I would click through.

    Mind you, this was in an era when the internet amounted to strings and cans because I’m a fucking dinosaur. Since then, ads first went obnoxious and loud, then they got plastered everywhere, then they started being invasive.

    Fuck ads at this point. There’s nothing good in them for us at all.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, ads were always dog shit. Yeah you had your static banners and what not, but I remember the popup wars from the 90s.

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      In a way I kind of miss the old banner ads. Smack the monkey and win $1,000,000 or whatever it was. I swear I hit that monkey so many times.

      Now I can’t even read a page without pop up after pop up on top of the embedded ads in between every two sentence paragraph.