Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?

  • Samuel ProulxA
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    6 months ago

    I don’t block anything. I work in accessibility, so it’s important to me to know what the experiences are like for my fellow users with disabilities. I also don’t want to recommend sites or apps that are riddled with inaccessible ads. I’d rather not give them traffic at all. Though even though I let them track me, I still get ads in a language I don’t speak for cars I can’t drive. What’re they doing with all that data?

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      6 months ago

      So me seeing ads in random languages is not me being clever with identity obfuscation, but big data being big stupid?

      And thank you for your work in accessibility 🫡

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        6 months ago

        Apparently! I don’t hide my data in any way, and constantly get ads in languages I don’t speak. Usually French, but sometimes Hindi or Chinese. And as a blind person myself, I’m not sure that my well paid full time job working in large enterprise and big tech accessibility is altruism deserving of thanks haha.

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      6 months ago

      How are you presumably having websites presumably displayed in one language and ads displayed in another language?

      • Samuel ProulxA
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        6 months ago

        I assume it’s because I live in Canada, and big American data just assumes all Canadians speak French. I regularly get French ads on English websites.