Saagar Jha (@saagar@saagarjha.com)

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/07/2024

google (youtube) decided to show me a pre-roll ad about how google (google) is responding to… idk, gdpr litigation? but this is intended for “marketers”, not for the likes of me. it is a very strange thing to watch. seriously just watch a few seconds https://youtu.be/Vi4w_FHjC1s

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Saagar Jha

04/11/2024 (replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari Getting the people I follow to send me advertising is a whole new level of ad targeting

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/11/2024 (replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar unfortunately this is the power of upsetting advertising

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/07/2024 (replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

they like. they actually say the quiet part out loud (that the goal of the old consent popups was to get as much data out of you as possible and overwhelm users)

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/07/2024 (replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

also they actually refer to the past as the “good old days”