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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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The machanical extraction of highly personal data (did you have sex last night?) to build faux diary entries on people (this person lives alone) so others can easly pair their tailored attacks on the psyche to those who are vunrable. Were all vulnerable, just in diffrent places. Just gotta figure yours out.
I wish these systems were built to help match people with helpful products, but the non concent bugs me intensely.