• owl@infosec.pub
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    4 hours ago

    “Ok, I’m gonna buy it, surely the adds will stop now.”
    Adds intensify

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    10 hours ago

    I have noticed this sort of thing far too many times to ignore it.

    Ad fingerprinting is extremely effective.

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      24 minutes ago

      I have ads managed very well on my personal devices. I looked up camping stuff once on my work computer, and that is all I get on there now. Like, that’s all they have on me, so that’s what im going to get forever.

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        33 minutes ago

        I’ve got ads and tracking pretty tamped down on my own devices, but it’s honestly terrifying how often when I hang out with friends who have non-FOSS phones or Windows running in the room that Amazon is later trying to sell me the topics of the conversations we were having. And it’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who isn’t as sensitive to this, to tell them that their devices and software are compromising my privacy, and to get them to understand that as the consent issue it truly is.

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    19 hours ago

    Wasn’t there some sort of concept tech for an airport, where cameras detect and recognize you, and then ensures that any screen that you can see will have the list that has your flight on it? Moreover, the thing about this tech is that the same screen can show different lists simultaneously for different people, simply based on their position and the angle at which they view the screen, if I remember correctly.

    Now imagine that for public advertisements.