oh i know how this works and its not the way you think. Its somehow better and worse at the same time

Im going to describe the process using a hypothetical situation:

You decide to try a new shampoo but you’re not sure what to buy. You ask your friend “hey what shampoo do you use” and they tell you they use Head and Shoulders.

Later that night, you google head and shoulders and read reviews

The next day, your friend gets Head and Shoulders ads on youtube and facebook and Instagram, etc

This is because google knows both of your locations and search history. It sees that you two were within a few feet of each for hours and decides to shoot ads at you both, based on what either of you have searched recently.

This is called proximity targetted advertising and i think its gross.

But this is why so many people say things like “we were talking about it and now im seeing ads they must be spying on me”

Alright fine ill switch browsers AGAIN

if only there was a simple easy solution

that was a great summary, thank you

trying to research such a broad topic was overwhelming

i crave decisiveness like that. it would make me so happy if that sort of behavior became the norm.

too many corpos getting away with murder because they are more convenient than their competitors or because switching is too hard

hello, i have chosen to value your opinion above my own based on very shaky reasoning i will not be sharing

I abandoned chrome for being too RAM-hungry when im playing games w the browser open

i abandoned Internet Explorer for being too slow

and i abandoned firefox for being too bloated and sluggish, but that was like 2010 and things change

im currently using Opera but why do you choose firefox over its contemporaries?

is your house just an oven and a light switch?

every netsec admin i know lives like that and is DISGUSTED at how many “smart” appliances i have

If a product says “AI” on it, and its not talking about NPCs in a videogame, i assume the product is shitty and took 30x the energy to produce than a human-made product of the same quality

ah yes, the internet explorer/chrome/firefox but then firefox got better but then worse again/chrome/is internet explorer good now?/opera/operagx/Microsoft edge is actually fast now/back to opera effect

Eventually Microsoft is going to be forced to adapt and make an operating system that doesnt use 20% of your system resources, right?

surely they wont continue to make the same bloated, sluggish OS every year since windows 7 right?