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And such practices, based on personalized profiles, should most likely be illegal. (Various other practices like these have been made illegal as well)

Personally, I don't care that they're doing this (to me). I care more that they shouldn't be able to legally do it.

And also, as other people have said: it's ads that are the problem. Not personalized ads. Ads in general. They're ugly, bad, awful, battery-sucking, headache-inducing, loud, autoplaying, CPU-hungry, slow, very bad no good.

Seriously.

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Buying and selling personal info is a multi-billion dollar industry with almost no regulation.

One of Trump's first acts as POTUS was to allow your ISP to get in on this action.

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I should hope not. The US having that kind of legal say in what my ISP in Europe can do would be worrisome.