• thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Well, the good news is you don’t have to wait. There are already a dozen ways to block ads. I don’t even see ads anymore. On anything that I own or is on my network.

    And ads back in the day didn’t literally track you. I grew up in the 90s with surge and Nintendo and super soakers. Tons of ads that didn’t promote dollar store shitty items sold by everyone and their brother for a quick buck that were not crammed down your throat. Today is ridiculous, they literally track every second/sq foot you go inside a store, Google apple ibeacon, or look at the eink price tags that will change by the minute depending on who is near it. It’s created to extract every dime from your pocket.

    TV ads of yesteryear is nothing of the privacy invasion trash of today, literally listening to your mic and announcing you’re pregnant to your family based on a few past purchases.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

    Show me an old school TV that would out you like that.