Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers

Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers by bee_rider on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:01PM (#37573729)

How’d you get the ad? It seems like something that could be posted on a coffee shop bulletin board for example, or placed in the culture section of a local newspaper. In other words, environment and location are all that are really needed, we wouldn’t need to send somebody to stalk you (like Facebook or Google) in order to show you this ad.

Ads are only good for things with broad appeal like that.

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Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers by c-fe on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:57AM (#37640741)

I got the ad on instagram.

I agree that it could be posted somewhere locally in the real world, and it may have been, but the interesting part is that I dont live in my hometown anymore, even though I travel there frequently. I live in another country, 4 hours away, so I would have never seen a real world ad. Only instagram and all the data they connected about me knew my ties to my hometown and my interest in the music hence they showed the ad.

I agree on all the stalking points and I dont like that they have all this data, but this one time it was useful, i can not deny that.

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