oh i know how this works and its not the way you think. Its somehow better and worse at the same time

Im going to describe the process using a hypothetical situation:

You decide to try a new shampoo but you’re not sure what to buy. You ask your friend “hey what shampoo do you use” and they tell you they use Head and Shoulders.

Later that night, you google head and shoulders and read reviews

The next day, your friend gets Head and Shoulders ads on youtube and facebook and Instagram, etc

This is because google knows both of your locations and search history. It sees that you two were within a few feet of each for hours and decides to shoot ads at you both, based on what either of you have searched recently.

This is called proximity targetted advertising and i think its gross.

But this is why so many people say things like “we were talking about it and now im seeing ads they must be spying on me”

Alright fine ill switch browsers AGAIN

if only there was a simple easy solution

that was a great summary, thank you

trying to research such a broad topic was overwhelming

I work in an entirely different industry than you, but we have “going for a walk” when we need a moment to clear our minds

I love taking a little 10 minute stroll about the place as a “break”

i crave decisiveness like that. it would make me so happy if that sort of behavior became the norm.

too many corpos getting away with murder because they are more convenient than their competitors or because switching is too hard

hello, i have chosen to value your opinion above my own based on very shaky reasoning i will not be sharing

I abandoned chrome for being too RAM-hungry when im playing games w the browser open

i abandoned Internet Explorer for being too slow

and i abandoned firefox for being too bloated and sluggish, but that was like 2010 and things change

im currently using Opera but why do you choose firefox over its contemporaries?

i appreciate the summary but i had to google like half of these words and stumbled into a twitter post where someone was doing the whole “it is with a heavy heart blah blah blah gone before their time!” routine about Lira’s death

and something about the tone of the message felt like when a fascist tries to sound like a real person (i lack the literary chops to explain this, so i hope you understand)

So i looked up that user’s name and it was a far right podcaster

I dont have a conclusion for this little anecdote, its just funny how someone can sound like a bootlicker even when saying non-boot-licky things

They also used this person’s death as a soapbox to preach against the Joe Biden administration, which is a very righty thing to do (because they are incapable of human emotions like empathy)

yeah its just

like how do you argue against that? where do you even start?

they hide meaning behind big words they dont understand and then invent their own meaning for the word until their argument sounds like word soup to anyone who knows what the words actually mean

“the house is on fire, it should ALWAYS be on fire, and if you disagree then youre a dangerous pyromaniac and a phlebotomist”

im almost certain this is a breastfeeding/pumping room, but given a neutral name

Either way, it seems like a nice place to take 10 and scroll on my phone for a minute so i support it

the real question would be what sort of limitations does your employer have around it?

Ive worked at places that had ping pong tables and videogame stations in the break room but if you only get a 30min break for a 8 hour shift when are you meant to use these “happiness and welness” facilities

I have no idea who these people are but i love that we have debates and philosophical discussions from people with pseudonyms and stage names

it feels very ancient greek, with titles like Plato or Outis

My favorite brand of rage is the kind i feel when someone says a bunch of evil things and then follows it with “if you disagree, youre the evil one”