My argument isn’t that I’m immune to propaganda, it’s that Google, Amazon, and however many other unknown data hoarders have all my info already and aren’t using it for anything important.

If anything, it’s helpful. I got a suggested news article for some new research into my chronic condition, in it were targeted ads:

• Some sort of dental credit card

• A “smart” ring

• Xfinity

• Instacart

I don’t use any of those, congrats on spending money harvesting all my data to give me ads for products I won’t use.

I’m sure my purchasing habits are influenced by advertisers, especially new purchases into an area I don’t know, power tools, for example. I’ve definitely started my research into purchases with “that brand I’ve heard of before”.

But people in this thread are acting like AdSense is sewing my eyes open and mind controlling me into sending them my bank account details.