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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h1y ago0 comments

Couple reasons, depending on where those ads are:

1. If I search for diapers, and get ads for diapers, the usual pattern is to show the ads above the real search results, which tricks people into buying more expensive and/or lower quality products (after all, why else would the company need to pay to show up at the top of the search results?).

2. If I search for diapers on one site and get shown ads on a different site, then it follows that companies are trading information about me behind my back, which is not okay from a privacy perspective.

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Alupis1y ago

> which tricks people into buying more expensive and/or lower quality products

> why else would the company need to pay to show up at the top of the search results?

I dare say you do not understand how search results have worked for the past two decades.

> then it follows that companies are trading information about me behind my back

That is not how it works.

yjftsjthsd-hOP1y ago

Enlighten me, then; "no you're wrong" isn't really useful unless you fill it out a little bit.

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