Here at Google, we care about you so much, that we are making an in-depth forensic level profile of your life, likes, dislikes and everyone you've ever interacted with online or in person or just been in the vicinity of at one point in time, so we can better serve you the ads we know you will love and were paid handsomely to promote to you.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2025
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"Why, you'll hardly notice they're there... Or that they're ads, for that matter."
Not legal in many countries
I should hope not, no. Unfortunately, corporations seems to care increasingly little about legalities as of late.
Let me guess, the AI overviews will become the ads? I think they’ve already started making up bullshit to lean in favor of the advertisers. So frustrating
It's going to be subliminal messaging and hidden vpsychological programming in the chat bot replies, isn't it?