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Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.


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[–] spizzat2@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anecdotal: I had a friend go to New York. When he got back, I asked what he did while there, and (among other things) he told me that he saw a musical on Broadway.

I had heard of the musical before, but I’ve never searched for it or anything. The next day, I got an ad for it on YouTube.

Maybe it’s coincidental. I didn’t get ads for any of the other things he talked about. But I’ve never been to New York. I have no plans to go to New York. Why would I be getting ads for a musical only playing in New York?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

They totally have data on who you are spending time with. they know your friend went there and know you saw that friend. That’s enough I think