this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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Luckily you can mitigate most of it by installing uBlock Origin.
i second ublock origin.
But the problem runs deeper. Sure you can hide from all those ads they display, but they can still data mine your existence and shape it with their recommendations.
You can protect from that, too, but it's substantially harder and takes a lot more effort.
I resent the idea that a normal person needs like two media studies degrees and a minor in cyber security to interact kinda safely with aspects of our society that are essentially non-optional
Fully agreed, it's fucked
It’s prohibitively difficult enough that most people will never even try, which means it’s working as intended.