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Advertising ought to be on demand, really. So you might say "I want to do x, what are my options?" and then you'd receive a bunch of relevant ads.

Having it pushed at you all the time regardless of what you intend to do just puts you off doing anything at all except tell everyone to piss off and leave you alone.

I should just be able to say "I want to eat a Dundee biscuit" and receive a range of offers of delicious Dundee biscuits.

But no, constant chaos and NO DUNDEE BISCUITS AT ALL.

🐂💨

@llamasoft_ox I suppose, technically, this was the goal of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, etc constantly listening to our conversations. The concept of waiting for you to start talking about wanting a new car and then pushing car ads at you makes a lot of sense.

Just, they neither realised how big of a privacy issue that particular model is, nor considered that we maybe don't want adverts pushed at us for EVERY conversation that we ever have, across EVERY medium that exists.

@dev_ric @llamasoft_ox IT DOES NOT WORK AT ALL ANYWAY !! .. Why I am not getting any ads for lizards toys or giant goat plushies or gator-trips or fursuits or such ? It's bullshit .. I don't care about your new fancy car, that stylish perfume, or that new crypto coin or such .. Even the things we BUY every 2 weeks !! Have I ever seen any ad about "gourmet sheep food ?" of "fancy horse salty lick ?" .. NO .. so what the heck ? .. Does not work ? Where's my giant iguana plush ! 😎

Giles Goat

@llamasoft_ox @dev_ric

Sometime I think I am SERIOUSLY LUCKY that some things I want/would like "don't exist" or "I can't really get them" .. because who knows what/where I could be/who I could be now IF I had the chance to get to them ?

Would I die eating myself to death if I end up in a cakes factory ? Better don't ask such types of questions 😅

@gilesgoat @llamasoft_ox oh I'd have 100% wrapped myself around a tree in some stupidly fun hyper-car long before now, if I could've afforded to 😬