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Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Basically tells advertisers and trackers that you click on every single ad (a common metric used to gauge interest), so it's harder for them to tell what you're interested in and build a profile of you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Seems like not clicking on any ads should have the same outcome...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I don't see ads, so who knows what is in my profile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Worse actually, since we usually visit a subset of the web, and by "fake clicking" all the ads of all the websites we visit, we actually give google a pretty good profile of the websites we visit, and that's bad. Fake clicking is not as private as people think it is.