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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

You used to be able to see what Google thought about you.

https://myadcenter.google.com/controls

Can't check myself if they still do but on the advertiser end they definitely let you target demographics.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Sure, google knows I'm a 50+ year old man but YT isn't pushing me a bunch of videos about retirement and how to keep the damn kids off my lawn. If I made a new account and it knew nothing about me, it might. But right now it knows I'm interested in obscure early 20th Century comic books and early 70s horror anthology shows.

Edit:

I misunderstood what you said. I use ad blocker so I don't see ads. Sometimes they get through and it's always Wix. That is kind of a mystery to me.