What scares you most? And why exactly this?

You guys get ads?

Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me

Wait, did we go from being freaked out that our devices might be passively recording our speech to accepting it as the "good and normal" version of things? Cause I'm pretty alarmed at both.

Imagine getting ads in 2023.

uBlock Origin and uMatrix chads rise up

You get ads:

💀💀💀

No ads

What are ads?

-pihole / uBlock / Brave browser user

you get ads

no i dont

Don't worry, those big platforms can't read your thoughts. Those ads aren't there because you thought of those things.

Because it's the other way around. They want you to buy the stuff they have ads for so they manipulate you into thinking about those things first.

I've been doubting my sexuality lately and I freaked out when Google recommended an ad with LGBT couple on it. Not even my friends or family know that side of me.

You get ads about things you have photographed. If you give Facebook image access, it will scan ALL of your photos locally. I had some photos of couches it started giving me ads for them.

The function that is yourself had been approximated.

You get ads

😱

Can't even imagine getting a simple ad

What's really gonna bake your noodle later is if you'd have thought about that thing at all if it wasn't something they were advertising...

Ad-blocker blocker blocking ad blocker in sites scares me

I used to get ads exclusively for cleaning supplies on this one music app I used only when I cleaned. Never talked about cleaning, just the sounds of cleaning and dishes being done. Probably a coincidence but it freaked me out enough I stopped using that and just downloaded a shit ton of music to my phone.

Google basically uses the same tricks "mind readers" do except they have a lot more information. They don't need to read your thoughts or listen in to your conversations. If you start looking at cribs online they're going to send you ads breast pumps in a few months followed by baby food makers 6 months later.

Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.

I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.

Something something adblock

when your fbi agent knows you better than yourself

both are creepy

That doesn't scare me, because I know full well that neuroscience is nowhere near advanced enough to read minds.

When that day comes, however…

You get ads for something before you need it.

YES!!!! I had this happen to me. I never mentioned it to anybody, I just thought it up and next day... BAM! I see an ad for something I just THOUGHT about.

What the fuck???

omg YES. So weird and creepy. And not just ads...Youtube recommendations, fluff news stories, songs you didn't know existed.....

this meme is kinda meta for me too 💀 because I wondered who else experiences this

It's 9am in morning, it's too early for this shit!?! Let's just call it a coincidence. I'm going back to sleep, they can't get to you in your dreams.

Vice versa. They're training you to think a certain way. Advertising is basically black magic and very few are immune to it.

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