pharmacist: "do you have a rewards card?"
me: "no I only offer my data for mining by my credit card company, their 479 partners, your payment processor, whoever's running your security cameras, and the 30 apps on my phone that, despite my best efforts, are recording that I'm in a pharmacy right now"

(I didn't, I just said no thank you.)

I always turn off all forms of personalization, reject cookies, etc, and in some ways I think that's working because YouTube keeps serving me ads for complete survivalist nutjobs, which I suspect is its default setting for New Mexico.

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@whereistanya That sounds about right, I get Grammarly and LNER ads, which has got to be residential North London during the daytime targeting.

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