I just "deactivated" my Nextdoor profile this morning, and told them what I DIDN'T need was yet another website devoted to comments by people who are just as toxic as any I visit. This morning it was some parent calling for people to call the local school district because teachers had shown students content from CNN, and as we ALL know, CNN is "poison and fake news." It turned out to be CNN10, a channel devoted to unbiased stuff that teaches kids in classrooms about journalism. The next post was about vaccines, and not in a good way.
Big Tech has "innovated" themselves into our lives in such a nefarious way. I too have just LOOKED at things on Amazon, not actually bought anything, and the next thing I know, there's ads for what I looked at on completely unrelated sites -- and WAY too specific to be coincidence. Now, THAT'S evil! Looking forward to the podcast.
I was under the impression that if you opted out of tracking in settings such as Amazon,Google, and others and also chose to not keep track of your search history on your browser that it should stop. In the settings it says that you would receive just as many ads but they would not be selected for you. It appears to be acting as stated. Am I missing something here?
I'm looking forward to the podcast this afternoon. This gave me the shivers.
I just "deactivated" my Nextdoor profile this morning, and told them what I DIDN'T need was yet another website devoted to comments by people who are just as toxic as any I visit. This morning it was some parent calling for people to call the local school district because teachers had shown students content from CNN, and as we ALL know, CNN is "poison and fake news." It turned out to be CNN10, a channel devoted to unbiased stuff that teaches kids in classrooms about journalism. The next post was about vaccines, and not in a good way.
Big Tech has "innovated" themselves into our lives in such a nefarious way. I too have just LOOKED at things on Amazon, not actually bought anything, and the next thing I know, there's ads for what I looked at on completely unrelated sites -- and WAY too specific to be coincidence. Now, THAT'S evil! Looking forward to the podcast.
I was under the impression that if you opted out of tracking in settings such as Amazon,Google, and others and also chose to not keep track of your search history on your browser that it should stop. In the settings it says that you would receive just as many ads but they would not be selected for you. It appears to be acting as stated. Am I missing something here?