>open Gmail
>see an ad in the Promotions tab for a stock clearance sale at a local retailer that caters to men in the 18-35 demographic
>buy a pair of designer jeans for $25 thanks to this targeted ad, which reached me only because Google knows that I'm a 21-year-old /fa/ zoomer living 3 km from that retailer
>tfw saved hundreds of dollars AND discovered a new shop that sells the kind of stuff I like
What exactly is the downside of being in the botnet?
Open Gmail
Jacob Watson
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Jaxson Walker
>open gmail
>everything lags
>music in other tab stops working
>13 gb of 16gb ram is used
>waterfox crashes
Easton Reyes
>being a buyfag
Luke Young
>buying shit you weren't planning on buying because an ad told you to
good goy, keep consuming designer fashion
Christian Sanders
Use Chrome
Kayden Long
>buy a graphics card online
>keep seeing ads about graphics card for months
>literally just bought one so I don't need more
I don't know user, you tell me
Adam Richardson
That literally did not happen.
Caleb Cooper
Nah, I like that shit too. I actually have an account at a site that just has ad folders for shops I visit. Always good to know what kind of shit they're selling for cheap from a lazy chair. Capitalism done right is comfy.
Henry Mitchell
>using my computer
>have uMatrix, HTTPSEverywhere, Coincidence Detector and AdNauseam
>don't encounter some comical combination of targeted ads like every tech illiterate consumer ITT
>cost advertisers thousands of dollars over the years without even lifting a finger
>continue using my computer
Benjamin Price
>Not torrenting your clothes