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[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 92 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I keep getting ads that blast right out of the gates saying “my husband prematurely ejaculates…” in the middle of the day. Or “problems getting rock hard?” I got my kids next to me. Like WTF? If it’s supposed to profile me, it’s broken. I don’t need or want ED pills and even if I did, why are the ads so crass?

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago

It's because you have personalized ads turned off. Half the ads I get are in languages I don't speak

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 11 hours ago

But god forbid a youtuber makes a dick joke.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"You don't want personalized ads? Ok, have some dick pills."

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

“DICK PILLS, DICK PILLS…DICK PILLS DICK PILLS DICK PILLS”

[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooooooooh, is that what that is!? Malicious compliance? That’s bullshit if true.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has to be. When I turned off the ad personalization on mine it spammed me with the most annoying TikTok ads ever (literally only tiktok and the occasional Uber ad, nothing else, wtf?) until I broke down and turned on Adblock

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 19 hours ago

Why on earth would you have adblock turned off in the first place?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Apparently Walmart can tell a woman is pregnant before they know themselves, they do such extensive data mining around what people purchase.

Maybe google knows your future....

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

No, that story wasn't about the power of data. It was a young woman using the family computer to browse Target for baby stuff because she was pregnant. And then Target sent emails with baby stuff.

So it's more like: the internet knows you are pregnant before you tell your dad.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] prex@aussie.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

Um, the second (non-ad) link kind of refutes the claim

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

Ah thanks, I'm sure that's what I was thinking of.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

Also warehouse operators can usually tell, when a woman/employee is pregnant even before she knows, because it will actually show in their working statistics

I've heard that not just from one warehouse manager.

They know fucking before you do, because of the data.
That's a hard thing, if you don't have any labour protection laws

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They know you’re a woman and your kids are there. They’re trying to get you to buy the ad free subscription, lol.