when you tell facebook an ad “knows too much” you’re essentially confirming that their advertisement algorithm is working, it’s just making people uncomfortable because it’s working too well
it’s still positive feedback on them trying to either flood people with advertisements or socially engineer you into buying things by tracking frankly enormous amounts of data on your location, the other websites and apps you use, your conversations recorded through your phone, everything
instead? just mark all ads as “repetitive” or “irrelevant”- something that doesn’t give them information on how well the ad catered to your tastes.
don’t give huge creepy corporations valuable information on your ad tastes. they will use it against you in any way they can.
That dril tweet reminds me that I once heard a story claiming that the US government used to ask suspected spies "what is the candy that melts in your mouth not in your hand” because that piece of M&Ms advertising is a thing that supposedly any actual American would know but a foreigner who had learned to pretend to be American by reading books and watching movies or whatever would not know. Of course that wouldn’t work as well in a time when American commercialism knows absolutely no borders, but I remember thinking that it made me want to pretend I don’t know anything about products marketed in this capitalist hellscape because if enough of us refused to recognize them then this would make it more difficult to use it as a litmus test where True Americans know the Products and everyone who doesn’t is a Foreign Spy, which feels like a concerning trend that should be stopped.
