• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Answer’s easy though. Signing up to advertisement delivery platforms, wether it be TikTok, or YouTube or even Amazon Prime with comemrcials.

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        16 hours ago

        I’m not sure we knew what spyware was before 2000

        edit: I guess the term was officially coined in 1995, but not common parlance until around 2005, so I suppose I was in the ballpark

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        7 days ago

        Right but they’re mostly not too up in your face with the spyware. They’re not hiding it either,but you could forgive a tech-illiterate for not seeing it.
        The advertisements though, they’re fucking all over the place. The “free internet” isn’t even dead. These poor sods just choose to go with the advertisements instead.