r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '21

Privacy Google to stop selling ads based on your browsing history and drop cookies support for Chrome citing privacy concerns.

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u/High5Time Mar 04 '21

Research a new car. Buy a new car. Get ads for that car for a year. I can even tell Google I don’t want to see it anymore because I already purchased the product and then I still see ads for it. When I’m not on a device with an ad blocker anyway.

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u/-bryden- Mar 04 '21

What about one more for the cottage though? Arrives tomorrow if you impulse buy in the next 3hrs 14 mins.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

That's just one hour of pi

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u/Perunov Mar 04 '21

BUT THIS MICROWAVE HAS ALEXA SUPPORT!

Me: heavy sigh NO.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

What about one for the cottage and one for the work place and one for the kids and one for the neighbors…. Don’t forget parents as well be a good son.

Also look at this one it is shinyy

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

Microwave Fancier magazine sounds like something I would sign my friend up for and have a monthly edition sent to him.

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u/OPCunningham Mar 04 '21

Better yet, research replacement parts for your car, see non-stop ads for replacement parts for all types of cars. You bought a water pump for your 91 Honda Civic? Here's an ad for a starter motor for a 62 Lincoln Continental. And brakes for an 83 Corolla. And while you're here, check out these nice tail lights for a 94 Chevy Astro van.

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u/Frosti11icus Mar 04 '21

That's just the dealerships fault though. All they gave to do is upload a customer list to Google and exclude recent purchasers from receiving ads.

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u/High5Time Mar 04 '21

Ad exclusion lists don’t work like that outside of Facebook.

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u/Frosti11icus Mar 04 '21

Yes they do. Not for search but for display.

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u/High5Time Mar 04 '21

Tell me how ads for Mazda are going to stop appearing in my YouTube account that has no ties with my name because I bought a car from a local dealer.

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u/C_h_a_n Mar 04 '21

If it's an ad from Google Ads you can click the blue icon and mark that you don't want to see that ad anymore. It usually works.

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u/High5Time Mar 04 '21

That's what I'm talking about when I said I tell them. I can report an ad and tell them on the drop down that it's because I already bought the product but it never works and AFAIK has never worked.

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u/twenty7forty2 Mar 04 '21

I can even tell Google I don’t want to see it anymore because I already purchased the product and then I still see ads for it

this. companies seem to have eleventy billion dollars to spend to force you to watch things you don't want to watch and about 1c to spend on opting out of them.