• credit crazy
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    257 months ago

    Man I wish I had people who listened to me. Google ads: I listen. I said people not corporations

  • @OR3X@lemm.ee
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    107 months ago

    Walmart REALLY listens. I bought a few groceries IN STORE and about two weeks later I got an email with a list of items I purchased and links to review them. Now, I know what you’re thinking, but I’m not enrolled in their loyalty program, and I don’t have their app installed on my phone. The only way I can figure they linked my purchase to my email address is because I have previously logged into their website on my phone (via the browser) and of course my phone was with me during my shopping trip. That’s some creepy shit.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, that would be much more plausible. As dystopian as Walmart is, I don’t think they have phone sensors that can determine your device by just being in the store…

        • @llama@midwest.social
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          47 months ago

          This is definitely how they do it, as someone who has a Walmart account and usually buys through the app. If I buy something in store with one of my linked cards, it stores the receipt in my account (and then asks me to review it)

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      7 months ago

      *ahem

      laughs in uBlock Origin + pihole (w/ a 700k+ single adlist) + nextdns on a container and redirecting all my inputs to my rpi 4 instead of my pc, while (also) under ufw

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    -47 months ago

    Considering I’ve never once been served an ad from either of them that I actually felt any reason whatsoever to click on… No, I don’t really think they are.

    Either that or I’m the most unmarketable human being on the planet, which is plausible, but doubtful.