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It's not a "spy apparatus". It's an ad company... and people from all over the world use these services because it does make their lives easier.


I have turned off I think hundreds of ad targeting switches in Facebook, Google, Windows, and LinkedIn, and despite the incessant passive-aggressive warnings about how ads will be "less relevant", I don't find them to be worse.

I hope you're not one of the weirdos who likes to contradict people and say we are all fooling ourselves and the algorithm knows all.




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