Nah I’m not unique. If I’m not washing my hair I can often have an earbud in listening to some podcast or television show.
Modern tech is addicting and exhausting.
It takes me like 5 minutes to shower, 2 to brush my teeth, and 3 to clean the rest of me.
Not a lot of time for thinking.
All the toilets in your building / neighborhood were installed all the same time and your need for a toilet seat likely matches the average lifespan of that item. They see this, they see you bought a toilet seat.
They don’t sell ads directly for you though. The do sell ads to people your age in your location that might need a toilet seat. They might also know that that item has a high return rate. On the chance you return it they want to sell the opportunity to advertise to you for more to potential customers (ad buyers)
It just goes on and on.
The reality is they don’t need to listen.
They have so much data on users.
It just goes on and on and on.
People think they are unique but they are not as unique as they think.
The other thing people on Lemmy / Hackernews/ Reddit don’t seem to get is that people are not using laptop or desktop computers anymore. More and more people only have a phone and maybe a tablet. People with phones and tablets do not know what a browser is. It’s baked into the system. Everyone on Android is using Chrome and they very likely don’t even know it.
I mean it makes total sense the minute you think about it at all.
It’s the same with laws.
It’s very hard to get the electorate united to oppose something but if they manage to unite and oppose a bill the lobbyists are back at work on Monday pushing it by a different name.
Signal is great sure but encrypted information on transit is sorta irrelevant in this day and age because people don’t control their own devices.
Who cares about encryption when face book can read both ends of the conversation for most people.
That doesn’t even begin to get into the various ‘management engines’ (or whatever they are calling them now) that modern processors are packaged with.