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pdx queer dev, now an Old


doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

[it is the age of so-called A.I. and everyone has been buying and selling my personal data online for like 10 years]

targeted advertising: we see that you bought a wallet last week.

me: yes

targeted advertising: would you like to um... purchase additional wallets?

me: no?

targeted advertising: damn. almost had her this time


aune
@aune

I still can't believe they also do this with cars


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in reply to @doodlemancy's post:

A friend of mine sent me a link to a "luxury dog bed" on wayfair (basically a small overstuffed leather couch), entirely in the spirit of "haha, look at this ridiculous vanity object that the dog probably doesn't even like compared to a smelly blanket, eat the rich amiright?" and I then proceeded to get banner ads for impractically fancy dog beds for a week on all the webcomics I read whose pages I've whitelisted in my adblocker.

I choose to imagine that this is the final desperate gamble by a man sitting in a warehouse full of unsold luxury dog beds, as he says to himself, "I've made a huge mistake."

This reminds of when I was first transitioning and searched up a lot of ftm resources, which must've confused the Machine because I kept getting ads for baby toys, cribs and stuff. Turns out many people searching the term ftm mean "first time mom" which is about as far away from what I was becoming as possible

oh my GOD i've never heard of that, i only knew of FTM as a transition-related term thats so fucking funny

that baby stuff gets really stuck to you, too, i am a No Thank You on babies but i bought one (1) gift for a friend's baby shower and for months the ads assumed i was a new mom

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