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Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by mrkeen on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:14AM (#50380115)
On YouTube, I get the same rotation of 3 ads almost constantly. A shampoo that I have no interest in, a detergent that I used to have (but no longer, because I associate with spam), and a dusting brush (I had no idea these things still existed!)

Mastodon was my main source of doom-scrolling, but I got sick of the endless stream of posts about US politics and posts about Mastodon not having an algorithm, so I decided to give BlueSky a go, and climb back into my filter bubble, but it's even worse. Just an endless stream of people reporting US pol happenings at each other - unsourced - using screenshots of multicoloured block-letters.

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Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by ninglor on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:20AM (#50381022)
Why would dusting brushes no longer exist? Has something happened to dust?
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Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by odo1242 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:02PM (#50382204)
Maybe GP was thinking about hand vacuums? Still, dusting brushes are still a thing
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Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by aidenn0 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:32PM (#50388228)
You don't get the obvious scam ads with an AI voice-over telling the story of how a lone genius created this amazing thing, but you need to buy now because the government is going to shut them down because their product is too good? Outside of election ads, that's 90% of what I see on youtube.
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