I did misunderstand. You were responding to

Something is only a fee if you can’t afford it

Which I understood in the general case. Like I’ve heard of rich jerks that park illegally because the fee isn’t enough to bother them.

Sure, why not?

It does to me, but ymmv. On the other hand there is at least one now because I made one.

Technically you still paid money, j just not a meaningful amount compared to your total.

This must be it. Especially since they have my IP address it must be an easy fingerprint

Yeah I’m just not sure how it has cookies since I used tubular…

I guess it’s in the same category as those automatic ads that say “cop this look” and offer to sell you products that appear in a photo on a website.

It’s interesting to me that they scan the video, and then know that I watched it (on tubular) when I’m visiting a completely unrelated website in a different browser, and serve me an ad there.

Many archaic cultures had words for 1, 2, 3, and “many”. You can see this tendency reflected in the Roman system where I, II, and III are obvious symbols, but IV introduces two new concepts: V for five, and the system where putting a symbol to the left represents that much less than the next symbol.

Therefore I think 1, 2, and 3 are based on counting on fingers, but 4 is where their system deviates.

It was on screen for a few seconds and not the point of the video.

Neither the video, nor the ad were on Lemmy. The ad was an automated ad on a random article I found on Lemmy. The kind where behind the scenes, the ad vendor auctions off the space and your information to the bot that’s the highest bidder

I haven’t seen it in the comments yet, except for my comment that I had seen an ad for it.

I doubt this because it is not a product people would buy in any volume, and was just used to illustrate a random point. Also the video has been out less than 24 hours. I don’t think it’s likely in this case.

But on the other hand, if millions of people watch something, I guess some percentage will buy the thing they see… huh.

Thanks for this suggestion.

Wait a second, how would Anker/Amazon know that people who watch the video are likely to buy that item? Would Google send Amazon the exact watch history of each customer and they identify videos in common?

🎵I’m just kidding like Jason… unless you’re gonna do it 🎶

No, but there was text on screen in the video saying what it was, and that it wasn’t an endorsement.

Here’s the section in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOK5xkFijPc&t=2999

He doesn’t speak its name, it’s just visible on screen.

It’s definitely personalized, even though I had turned all of that off, since tubular interacts with YouTube without logging in.

Soft gym shorts: pous-pous.

My high school history teacher’s favorite word

What’s the word? “I’m just ____ing”?

I thought he met a nice girl he liked, he was playing games with his friend, they all hung out and his friend and the girl crushed on each other, and now he feels unloved by both of them