I live an ad-free life since about 2010. But I do wonder what it’s like to see targeted ads.
Is the woman on the right Daria all grown up? I didn’t realize how bad I want that until now.
I don’t get ads. I am nothing.
Love that for you.
I don’t
I opted out of as many ad trackers as I could ~10 years ago and took every precaution I could.
…it resulted in-- and I shit you not-- really embarrassing-looking ads with words written in capital red letters that read something like “HUGE DISCOUNTS ON HORSE SEMEN BY THE GALLON!” complete with pictures of creamy liquid.
I searched as best I could to make sure I didn’t have a virus or something, and I found some user with the same query as myself; it was a legitimate advertisement from their bottom-of-the-barrel advertisers who-- I guess?-- didn’t pay to target users and had just put in the bare minimum money for ads.
It was so horrible of an experience I stopped the charade and let them learn about me again-- which I can’t help but think was part of the plan.
I am confused, why not just use an ad blocker?
I got advertised bras the other day when I was forced to see ads for the first time in years
Considering I don’t use bras, that’s probably a good sign
Maybe it predicted your future man boobs.
She’s seeing a consumer whore version of herself, I guess? I haven’t seen a targeted ad in years.
I really liked the person the targeted ads thought I was, back when I saw ads.
They were often targeting an idealized version of myself.
They were offering to let you become that idealized version. The offer was a lie of course, but that’s advertising.
I love VPNs for this … I get to see advertising from around the world … Japanese noodles, Nordic furniture, some weird German food, Turkish real estate, Australian drinks … and all of it delivered in languages I don’t understand.
You don’t even have to do that to get served foreign ads. If you search on country specific search sites long enough, it’ll eventually bleed over to your native feed.
I do sometimes wonder what the ads say but like you I can’t be bothered to learn Australian.
It’s not hard … you just turn the monitor upside down and you can translate everything.
Hey, speaking of VPNs, why does Lemmy not let me post anything or even comments when I’m on my VPN? As soon as I turn off my VPN, Lemmy lets me participate again. 🤔
Because you’re on lemmy.world. I don’t have that problem with my server unless I’m using a crappy VPN that’s really slow
November 2023 I tried getting into a million different instances and dot world is the only one that wouldn’t buffer in silence forever and actually sent me a verification email. Radio silence from every other instance. Please tell me everyone’s magic secrets for getting into other instances.
I don’t see ads
UBlock Origin and NoScript are both very useful
I haven’t seen an ad in ages.
I was gonna say: I have no idea what this is like.
I’m simultaneously living my best life, (mostly) ad free, and at once unaware of how the rest of the world navigates an ad-encrusted digital space.
Cmon! I don’t need or want an abussive vampire boyfriend!
You guys are seeing ads? I barely use my phone and on my PC I use Firefox with ublock origin. It’s simple really.
fennec with ublock origin works wonders on the phone too.
Or just the default Firefox app, which supports extensions.
I hate when someone asks me about some random thing, I quickly Google it for some quick info about something I don’t care about at all, and then I have to deal with pop up ads on that product for weeks afterwards.
Use duckduckgo for these random searches
Valid.
I see you purchased a washing machine. May I assume you are collecting washing machines? Of course I may. Let me offer you these excellent deals for washing machines!
Not me, opted out of everything I can that would target me and with the VPN I use it just randomly picks locations and servers
I absolutely love getting ads in random languages I don’t even speak
I can’t even read the ads so It’s like an extra layer of protection from their marketing due to my own ignorance
