remember when it was called "surfing the internet", implying a fun activity?
*bites the tongue as hard as possible to not say The Thing*
okay but what if it could also set you on fire?
the playlist saved for offline playback that will still try to connect to the internet for like 30 seconds when you open it while actually offline. the Discover Weekly playlist that will serve you the song that you've marked as "not interested" over and over and over and
homework is such an incredibly idiotic concept. a kid gets sent to school for 7 hours (if not more, at times) of mental work, and then they're required to do even more work after they go back home.
your coworker might've looked up things related to the conversation, and the ad provider figured out that you two are in the same social circle. so far I haven't seen any actual research that would prove that ads are tailored based on microphone recordings (and actually seen the results stating the opposite a few years ago), just a bunch of anecdotal stories.
I love the corpospeak. why say "crashed into" when you can use "made contact" which sounds futuristic and implies that your product belongs to an alien civilization?
Feedly, Inoreader, Feeder, Newsblur, Feedbin.
the actual original article on Doctorow's website with no tracking scripts: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
don't worry, they'll just agree to the profiling.
I think I've found the underlying issue