You guys get ads?
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Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me
Yesterday my ublock failed me and I had to watch a full 5 seconds of ads for 3 times! Fortunately it seems to work after updating filters now
See, that right there is true horror.
Yeah, Idk why but ublock auto-nuked the filters I entered (that nice custom filter from Tumblr), i didn't notice but I did after the satanic torture by yt (15 secs of ads I won't get back) I fortunately went on the dashboard and noticed my filters weren't there, immediately re-pasted them.
Wait, did we go from being freaked out that our devices might be passively recording our speech to accepting it as the "good and normal" version of things? Cause I'm pretty alarmed at both.
You get ads:
💀💀💀
I genuinely feel bad for the people who actually get ads online these days.
Imagine getting ads in 2023.
uBlock Origin and uMatrix chads rise up
Firefox mobile gang.
Chrome has ads on ads on ads these days, it's terrible.
Shit. Add modded Spotify and YouTube to the list. If it can be blocked I'ma do it.
Also revanced/piped.video, sponsorblock, spotX .. probably more
We looked into it more deeply and found that apparently what happened is users started blocking ads through the chromium browser extension APIs, so we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Signed: the Google manifest team
Can't you do all the script blocking from uMatrix in uBlock Origin?
No ads
I haven't seen ads in years lol. I'm very aggressively adblocked on every layer possible. Even down to setting my router to use an adblocker dns as a final protection layer.
Don't worry, those big platforms can't read your thoughts. Those ads aren't there because you thought of those things.
Because it's the other way around. They want you to buy the stuff they have ads for so they manipulate you into thinking about those things first.
So they have read AND write access to your thoughts.
The largest field for people with psychology or sociology degrees is advertising. They know how people think, how societies think, and are getting better at influencing both every day.
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You get ads
😱
Can't even imagine getting a simple ad
Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.
I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.
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Google basically uses the same tricks "mind readers" do except they have a lot more information. They don't need to read your thoughts or listen in to your conversations. If you start looking at cribs online they're going to send you ads breast pumps in a few months followed by baby food makers 6 months later.
Ad-blocker blocker blocking ad blocker in sites scares me
What's really gonna bake your noodle later is if you'd have thought about that thing at all if it wasn't something they were advertising...
I used to get ads exclusively for cleaning supplies on this one music app I used only when I cleaned. Never talked about cleaning, just the sounds of cleaning and dishes being done. Probably a coincidence but it freaked me out enough I stopped using that and just downloaded a shit ton of music to my phone.
just get some good ~~drugs~~ thought encryption
I love encrypting my thoughts with AES-256-GCM
That doesn't scare me, because I know full well that neuroscience is nowhere near advanced enough to read minds.
When that day comes, however…
Neuroscience, not yet. Data science absolutely is though.
we're getting close pretty fast. AI is accelerating things very quickly. I'd be willing to bet that millitary is researching this without announcing it.
Fear not though:
Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”
they're taking it seriously
My head isn't inside an fMRI machine, nor is my phone connected to one, so they still can't read my mind with my phone.
Fear not though:
Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”
they’re taking it seriously
Yeah, that's not even remotely reassuring. The instant it becomes feasible to read minds on a large scale, it will be immediately put to use for government surveillance and commercial exploitation. No one will give a single [expletive] about the objections of some college students. My only hope is to be dead before then.
thats kind of how I feel about it as well
both are creepy
You get ads for something before you need it.
YES!!!! I had this happen to me. I never mentioned it to anybody, I just thought it up and next day... BAM! I see an ad for something I just THOUGHT about.
What the fuck???
omg YES. So weird and creepy. And not just ads...Youtube recommendations, fluff news stories, songs you didn't know existed.....
this meme is kinda meta for me too 💀 because I wondered who else experiences this
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