Anyone else getting browser ads related to their sims' lives these days?

We cannot hide from AI, but we can confuse it with too much information. Thank you Sims for passively adding some more weird and wrong stuff to the profile that is being collected on me. It saves me the trouble of having to think up more weird and wrong stuff to actively feed it.

I let other people use my devices, but that doesn't always confuse the AI, because our accounts are voice sensitive. Just ask your devices "who am I?" Alexa very clearly knows my neighbor is not me, even when she uses my devices. I am just waiting for the AI to be able to differentiate my Sims from each other and to establish different profiles for them in my account.

honestly if my devices listened in on me
all they would really hear is me and cat having long meow conversations,
me sometimes singing very out of tune because some stupid song is stuck in my head,
tv sounds and maybe some computer tap tap tap

also some unpleasant bathroom sounds, machines and me munching on snacks

I can't imagine any of that would be too useful information

then again yeah I don't use any alexa siri kinda things cause I don't like having to talk irl
and even less I like talking to machines that can detect every speaking error and stutter I make
and make it thousand times more awkward by still reaching for the wrong thing

even thought has me mortified

Between UBlock and a few other privacy extensions, I really don't even get ads these days. Those that slip through the cracks get blocked too--manually.

I mean shortly after I got my first smartphone I disabled the microphone permissions for most apps.
The day I got the phone, I went to get ice cream with minisprite and mentioned that I liked Ben & Jerry's but they were too expensive to get all the time. Then I got ads for cheaper brands of ice cream that resembled Ben & Jerry's. Then I went to work and told someone I couldn't hear him very well, could he repeat himself, and then I got ads for hearing aids.
So that's when I learned how to disable microphone permissions.
I also keep my Siri turned off, and I don't have an Alexa or anything like that because those things give me the willies. I keep location turned off on my phone too.
I know it's only computers listening, no humans, but that doesn't necessarily make me feel any better

I haven’t had that happen, but I have had a few ads for TSR pop up. It makes sense because I do browse it quite a bit. I know people criticise TSR but two of my favourite CC creators are on there exclusively. Well, one does have a Patreon for Patreon-exclusive CC, but the majority of their stuff is on TSR.

Did you search for those things online? Changed my ad preference years ago so I don’t get ads related to anything I search

Lol not irl stuff search, I mean “the sims 4” or “ts4”followed by whatever it was you needed. I don’t think those ads are affected by ts4 in game actions, imagine all the ads people who use certain mods would be getting ?
https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-portal?modal-id=targetedAdvertisingProvidedByThirdParties
Looks like they do, but for a stereo ad just for looking for stereos is hilarious. Amount of times I spent looking for a single chair and I’ve yet to get any ads. You should opt out of sharing info.
https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-portal

LOL

Oh wow it's gonna be real interesting to see what they will look like for me.

"Katofhyrule12;c-18271116" wrote:
We cannot hide from AI, but we can confuse it with too much information.

Lol get adblocker and stop sharing info

hmm I don't think the game of all things is tracking what your sims are doing for ad purposes but it might feel like it. :D

Alexa does listen in. She will chime in randomly going on about a topic that was never discussed. Sometimes when no one is in the same room. I use ad blockers and VPN which works for the most part. I'm not that worried about being spied on because I'm not a very interesting person. A lot of things track your every move just like your smartphone.