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A www browser that sends your browsing history to an advertising services company. I can recall a time when this would not be acceptable to www users. Today, www users accept a www browser provided by an advertising services company that, as one might expect, records and uses your browsing history to sell online ad services.

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I've recently been getting google ads for customized tshirts that either have my first or last name _on the shirt in the actual ad_ [1]

I absolutely hate it and can't find anything about it online, other than 2-3 people on twitter complaining about it as well. No idea how they're even doing this or how I can disable it.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/cRSZFwK.jpg

I assume it’s done with services that have user data, you can then collate the surname + emails, and create a separate remarketing list per surname. Then you target that list with your surname-specific ads.

This thing explicitly does not send your history to anyone so I'm not sure what you are commenting here.

You guys need to understand that PEOPLE DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY IF THERE IS NOT AN ACTUAL HARM.

Its bad but it's a fact. How many decades of outrage is it gonna take for you to accept it.

> records and uses your browsing history to sell online ad services.

Such lack of imagination... The recorded data build behavioral profiles of the whole globe on multiple dimensions.

Most people want things for free. If you asked them if they want free access with ads or paid access without ads I guess most of them would choose the first option.

You're implying here that people can't get things for free without paying in some way and that those ways have to be the two options you present. You're wrong and it's also a logical fallacy.

What are the other options? Surely, none if them is trivially feasible, otherwise we'd see sites using them instead of the current monetization model?

You've moved the goalpost from "there are no other options" to "there might be other options, but they're hard".

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