this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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Note that it doesn't disable ads. It just means the ads a user sees will be less relevant to the user based on their browsing history and consumer profiles.
Yup was gonna say the same thing.
They can be removed with third party tools but they shouldn't be there in the first place.
I already thought it was pretty bad but that is somehow even worse. Par for the course I suppose