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Wolfdog has posted Essential tools to make the modern web more bearable, and people have even more recommendations in the thread. Bookmarked so hard. 🔖

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Ok, ok, maybe nobody reads the ads. But gentlyepigrams’ post about a small archive of print and outdoor ads points that maybe you should read some ads, ‘cause the copy is just that good!

I work in the space and have a few observations ... Jilder shares insider insight on those bizarre free-to-play mobile games / ads.

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I place Facebook ads on behalf of my workplace and looking at the ad console has been sort of fascinating to me as an end user in explaining why I see some of the ads I do and how I can stop some of the more obnoxious ones from appearing....

Most [facebook ad targeting] is based off user submitted data (if you don't tell Facebook how old your kids are, they can't serve you ads based on it) but some of it is stuff you wouldn't expect to be used that way. It brought me up short when I realised Facebook could use my submitted location and the submitted locations of my family members to target me as somebody who was isolated from my loved ones. I never saw any ads for the Scientologists or anything, just innocuous stuff, but it still creeped me out a little.